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Cactus has considerable experience providing language training to the banking, accountancy and financial services industry, both in the UK and overseas. Our clients have included Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds TSB, Merrill Lynch, Commerzbank and the Australian National Bank, and the language range includes Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian, English, German and Hindi. The language training can be done on an individual or small group closed basis.

:: How It Works
:: Course Content
:: Group Language Course for Banking
:: Contact Us

How It Works

Our qualified, native speaker language trainers are based nationwide throughout the UK and abroad. The training takes place either in your company offices or in one of our training rooms which are available throughout the UK and overseas.

Once you've spoken to one of our training coordinators we will prepare you a course proposal/booking form, containing a sample programme and quote. Once you return this to us we will be able to put together your training programme, agree dates, frequencies and locations, brief the trainer(s) and confirm everything back to you.

Course Content

As everybody's needs are different we will build a programme that is unique to you. This doesn't cost any more - it's the service we offer to everyone. This means that we will want to spend time finding out more about your projects, your job, your language ambitions, and build up a list of topic areas, or skills, for you to work through. If training is going to take place in groups, we'll aim to ask everyone to contribute ideas as to what they'd like to do.

The advantage of this approach is that you, and/or your colleagues following the course, are totally involved in the course design and therefore remain motivated throughout.

Of course, if you don't know what you'd like to work on, we can make suggestions as to what may be relevant. At lower levels of language ability, it is often useful to spend time running through the basic language first but, even here, we're able to 'flavour' the lessons with the themes and vocabulary, and the situations and scenarios, that you're likely to need.

Group Language Course for Banking

This 18 hour Foreign Language course over 12 weeks is designed for a maximum of 12 trainees and consists of 1.5 hours of training per week.

The course which has been specially designed for the Banking & Financial Services industry features modules on:

• Personal identification - talking about yourself
• Personal info & socialising with colleagues & clients
• Learning a language - methods and experience
• Basic communication by telephone & email; travel & making arrangements
• Numbers - invoices & dates
• Presentations & meetings - content, delivery & vocabulary
• Future plans - predicting the market, forecasts & trends
• Financial presentations - content, delivery & vocabulary
• Report writing & presenting data
• Negotiating contracts & agreements - contractual language
• Budgeting, P&Ls
• Company PR & history
• General banking in target country

Price: £2,400 + VAT [£200 per trainee] + £25 course materials per trainee (£5 per hour)

Contact Us

If you are short of time, simply call us on 0845 130 4775 (option 2) and we'll guide you effortlessly through the whole process. For further information you can also contact Germaine Broadbent, Head of Cactus Language Training, at: germaine@cactuslanguagetraining.com.