CLT WELCOMES DELEGATES FROM VIETSOVPETRO
Fifteen engineers from joint venture oil company VietSovPetro, Vungtau City, Vietnam have come to the Peak District to improve their English language skills during a 9 week stay, combining language training with cultural outings to York, Chatsworth House, Heights of Abraham and Edinburgh. They are enjoying everything except our cold spring weather - it's 33 degrees in Vietnam!

CLT WIN TOP LANGUAGE AWARD - AGAIN!
We were delighted to be named winner of the International Business Communication Awards - Language Provider - at the Marriott Hotel, Leicester recently. All the more pleased as this is the second time we have won first prize at these prestigious Awards, organised and sponsored by UK Trade + Investment.

COMBINING UK TRAINING WITH COURSES OVERSEAS
CLT have built up excellent working relationships with a number of overseas associates in Madrid, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam and Venice. This enables us to offer intensive courses overseas in many locations which enhance the learning experience of our clients. Clients currently benefiting from this service include O2 and BPB.

LANGUAGE SKILLS FOR CALL CENTRE STAFF
Call centres dealing with overseas clients require a very flexible approach to language training, mainly due to the shift system worked by their employees. CLT has devised language programmes combined with business effectiveness for call centre staff which has enabled them to respond more confidently and in a more articulate manner to incoming calls, ensuring enhanced customer care.

TUTOR ACCOMPANIED TRIPS ABROAD
CLT also offer tutor accompanied trips overseas to build up our clients' confidence in using their new language skills in realistic situations. This enables the tutor to devise guided practical exercises for the student as well as acting as an interpreteer in case of emergency!

TELEPHONE TRAINING
CLT offers training by telephone to clients who are unable to attend face to face lessons each week. C Froehlicher from Fraisa in Switzerland chose this option after doing a one week intensive course in the UK and finds it a really convenient way to keep up her business English skills now that she is back home in Switzerland. Over 20 different languages can be taught by telephone by CLT tutors giving clients the option to have the training whenever they have a free moment.

GETTING OUT OF THE TRAINING ROOM
Key staff from Statoil (Moscow), Gard (Norway), Linpac (Poland) and Axway (Paris) are just of few of the overseas delegates who have attended our specialised intensive English training courses held in the Peak District of Derbyshire over the past year. Formal training has been enhanced by practical opportunities to use English and cultural experiences through accompanied outings to Chatsworth Park, Buxton Opera House, Heights of Abraham (Matlock Bath), Leeds Armoury and many more local venues. M Karpushin of Statoil Moscow wrote to us: 'Thank you for this course. It was wonderful!'

SEE WHAT WE CAN DO!
CLT is helping senior managers and key staff at O2 in Slough, London and Leeds to capitalise on opportunities stemming from the takeover of the business by Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica. Feedback from both O2 and Telefonica staff on their Spanish and English training has been very complimentary. The team described their programme as 'very effective', 'thoroughly enjoyable' and 'giving a real insight into the Spanish language and culture'

CLT PROGRAMME DELIGHTS PROFESSOR ANTONINA
Professor Antonina Stoupakova, a petro-geologist with Statoil, Moscow, spent two weeks on an intensive course in the Peak District specially designed to boost her English skills. Antonina praised the 'excellent training', the CLT tutors and the cultural experiences she enjoyed in Derbyshire, whilst her line manager reported 'a significant improvement' in her English skills on her return to Moscow. More staff from Statoil are due to visit the UK for English training with CLT in the very near future.