80/80 LANGUAGES FOR AID
WORKERS
Opportunity: for managers and
staff members on short or long missions to other countries to feel more secure,
comfortable and effective in achieving better working relationships in English,
with local companies, governments, refugees, client and project staff, as they
perceive YOUR effort to speak the local language with a good accent, and thus to
show clearly a deep respect for THEIR local values and culture.
MOST IMPORTANT - FIRST TAKE THE TIME TO DO THE FIVE MINUTE "CREATIVE LEARNING EXERCISE" WITH (Powerpoint) AND THEN WITH (audio).
Description: dynamic English-based
brief language learning system developed initially with some voluntary UN staff,
for aid workers in
Designed for: mature motivated
learners who need to achieve very rapidly, the personal confidence to speak and
understand, basics of the local natural language.
Designed also also for current speakers to who want to
achieve significant accent improvement.
Course duration: one full six hour
day with a partner or small group, followed by daily brief individual revision,
in the following week and one day reinforcement a month later.
Application: individual training
or as a small part of any mmangement training program
to stimulate creativity, because: "Each language is an intellectual
treasure-house of communication, culture and humanitarian values" - Professor
Kenneth Hale - linguistics expert of MIT who spoke 50 languages fluently and
died
Method: uses CRE techniques to
achieve relaxation and intuitive absorption of the natural language with
confidence and without stress or effort. Designed to handle
varying individual value systems and needs. CRE techniques, once
acquired, can be easily used for any other languages or dialects. Uses IRT - the
Instant Relaxation Technique create the confidence to learn.
Nervous about speaking a new language? Old old old ...feeling that "I am no good at languages? Did you learn one as a child? Yes!! Very good. OK? Well done. Now, do it again now with CRE. Make a start at this very moment ... do the CLE (above) ... again for five mnutes ... and then you decide ... about your old and new abilities ... remember ... new learning keeps you young ... in mind and body ...
Inspired by: Dr.
Bob Boland (IUG) and Dr Catherine d'Arcangues (WHO), Dr. Giles Boland (Harvard)
and Dr Heli Bathija (UNTAD) and Dr Sancos Boland and
Further information: 33 450 40 8982 or 199 Chemin Garenne, Prevessin, 01280 France or email: robertboland@wanadoo.fr.
Dr. Bob Boland MD, MPH (Johns
Hopkins), DBA, ITP (Harvard Business School), ex UN Geneva and former visiting
professor at: INSEAD: IMD, Cranfield, Columbia, GSB,
Stellenbosch, Wits, WHO, ILO, WB, UNEP, UNIDO, AID,
IRC, Peace Corps, Shell, Burma, Barlows, Baxter, Nokia
etc.
Copyright: RGAB/2006/1 - Free for
aid workers ... and available to others on request! Some 1/5
day language and management programs currently available in