Business Language Guides
This section provides international business professionals guides dealing with typical business situations in foreign languages. All sites focus on business and offer various tools for learning.
- Arabic: Babel Arabic
Arabic is one of the world's most widely-spoken languages. This website features lessons on daily conversations, as well as writing skills to help professionals become conversant in this valuable language.
Focus: International Business
Last reviewed by globalEDGE on 6/1/2009 2:10:00 PM
- BBC Languages: Quick Fixes for Other Languages
Provided by the BBC, this resource helps users learn essential phrases in over thirty languages, including Dutch, Russian, and Turkish. Audio needs Real Player to function.
Focus: International Business
Last reviewed by globalEDGE on 9/1/2008
- Chinese: BBC Languages Chinese
Provided by the BBC, this resource for learning Chinese provides videos, snapshots, activities, and phrases that people in sales, hotel/catering, travel/tourism, and engineering use in their everyday work lives. Each situation is taught using images and sound bites of real people conversing. Audio needs Real Player to function.
Focus: International Business
Last reviewed by globalEDGE on 9/1/2008
- Chinese: Learning Chinese
Conversational lessons about traveling and working in China.
Focus: International Business
Last reviewed by globalEDGE on 4/21/2009 2:10:00 PM
- Connecting Foreign Language Education to International Business
Foreign language educators face the challenge of how to facilitate connections of foreign language education to international business. Patricia Ryan Paulsell and Cate Brubaker provide a guide to these educators showing best practice from five leading universities on international business education. The guide also provides the 'stakeholders' strategy to cater needs of the students and parents, the institutional decision makers, and the business community.
Focus: International Business
Last reviewed by globalEDGE on 4/21/2009 2:10:00 PM
- French: BBC Languages French
Provided by the BBC, this resource for learning French provides videos, snapshots, activities, and phrases that people in sales, hotel/catering, travel/tourism, and engineering use in their everyday work lives. Each situation is taught using images and sound bites of real people conversing. Audio needs Real Player to function.
Focus: International Business
Last reviewed by globalEDGE on 4/21/2009 2:06:00 PM
- French: French for Business and Economics
The French Internet Sourcebook has been developed to provide a single location for links to selected Internet resources specifically relevant to the study of French business and economics. Due to the limited web presence of certain countries, the amount of information varies. Some French-speaking countries are only represented by general country links providing information about geographical, political and economic aspects of these individual countries.
Last reviewed by globalEDGE on 2/25/2009 3:58:00 PM
- German: BBC Languages German
Provided by the BBC, this resource for learning German provides videos, snapshots, activities, and phrases that people in sales, hotel/catering, travel/tourism, and engineering use in their everyday work lives. Each situation is taught using images and sound bites of real people conversing. Audio needs Real Player to function.
Focus: International Business
Last reviewed by globalEDGE on 4/21/2009 2:05:00 PM
- German: German for Business and Economics
The German Internet Sourcebook has been developed to provide a single location for links to many Internet resources relevant to the study of German business and economics. Users will notice abbreviations next to most of the links; these abbreviations serve to alert the reader to the type of organization (state government, corporation, etc.) that is providing the text, and, hence, to the possible prejudices of the perspective being offered.
Last reviewed by globalEDGE on 2/25/2009 3:58:00 PM
- Greek: BBC Languages Greek
Provided by the BBC, this resource for learning Greek provides videos, snapshots, activities, and phrases that people in sales, hotel/catering, travel/tourism, and engineering use in their everyday work lives. Each situation is taught using images and sound bites of real people conversing. Audio needs Real Player to function.
Focus: International Business
Last reviewed by globalEDGE on 9/1/2008
- Italian: BBC Languages Italian
Provided by the BBC, this resource for learning Italian provides videos, snapshots, activities, and phrases that people in sales, hotel/catering, travel/tourism, and engineering use in their everyday work lives. Each situation is taught using images and sound bites of real people conversing. Audio needs Real Player to function.
Focus: International Business
Last reviewed by globalEDGE on 4/21/2009 2:09:00 PM
- Japanese: Japanese for Business and Economics
The Japanese Internet Sourcebook has been developed to provide a single location for links to many Internet resources relevant to the study of Japanese business and economics. Users will notice that all links are in the original Japanese, which is intended not only to maintain integrity of the Japanese language but also to encourage proper reading and recognition of Japanese characters as used in Japanese business culture.
Last reviewed by globalEDGE on 2/25/2009 3:55:00 PM
- Korean: Korean for Business and Economics
The Korean Internet Sourcebook has been developed to provide a single location for links to many Internet resources relevant to the study of Korean business and economics. Users will notice that all links are in the original Korean, which is intended not only to maintain integrity of the Korean language but also to encourage proper reading and recognition of Korean language as used in Korean business culture.
Last reviewed by globalEDGE on 2/26/2009 1:00:00 PM
- Spanish Proficiency Exercises
Developed by UT-CIBER at University of Texas at Austin, Spanish Proficiency Exercises contains various materials used for practicing and assessing Spanish language attainment. Includes specialized sections for different levels of difficult, grammar lessons, a glossary, and video clips with audio.
Last reviewed by globalEDGE on 2/26/2009 1:01:00 PM
- Spanish: BBC Languages Spanish
Provided by the BBC, this resource for learning Spanish provides videos, snapshots, activities, and phrases that people in sales, hotel/catering, travel/tourism, and engineering use in their everyday work lives. Each situation is taught using images and sound bites of real people conversing. Audio needs Real Player to function.
Focus: International Business
Last reviewed by globalEDGE on 4/21/2009 2:08:00 PM
- Spanish: Businessspanish.com
Businessspanish.com offers sections with lessons, verbs, dialogs, travel, vocabulary, grammar, and audio tools to assist one in learning Spanish. Users are given basic grammar instructions, which in turn are applied to common business terms and concepts. Short exercises utilizing the new knowledge are available with answers and translations available.
Focus: International Business
Last reviewed by globalEDGE on 6/1/2009 2:12:00 PM
- Spanish: Spanish for Business and Economics
The Spanish Internet Sourcebook has been developed to provide a single location for links to selected Internet resources relevant to the study of Spanish business and economics. Due to the relatively limited web presence of various South American countries, this sourcebook emphasizes Spain and Mexico. Other Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America are represented by general country links providing information about geographical, political, and economic aspects of these individual countries.
Last reviewed by globalEDGE on 2/25/2009 3:58:00 PM
- Swedish: Introduction to Swedish
Presented by the Stockholm School of Economics, this website not only provides introductory lessons in basic to intermediate Swedish, but also provides users with useful audio files, language comparisons, and helpful historical and cultural context to help one better understand the language. The website is designed for users with no prior knowledge of Swedish, and provides useful vocabulary as well as explains the basic grammatical structure of the language.
Focus: International Business
Last reviewed by globalEDGE on 4/21/2009 2:09:00 PM
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