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  • [E. Tomasik] What we really try to target for our business is what we callbusiness

  • to business,” so most of our clients are major businesses, but we do just take the

  • average man on the street, who walks in or calls in and wants language classes. Our program

  • is very, we tailor everything, so everything we do, we tailor to the needs of the student,

  • so if it’s one person who wants to learn Spanish, for example, we have lots of doctors,

  • who hear about us through interpreters and hospitals; they come in and say, hey, I want

  • to learn Spanish, or I want to learn one the Burmese languages, and so we just start working

  • with them one-on-one, but I would say ninety percent of our language training clients are

  • bigger companies, fortune 500 companies, professional organizations, athletes, who kind of have

  • a bigger, corporate need. The way we got involved with the LPGA was

  • about two years ago, as many people know if they follow ESPN or any type of sports, is

  • that the LPGA kind of ran into some trouble with an only English policy that they weren’t

  • putting out, but some reporters had kind of caught wind of, and so they hadn’t even

  • really put it there; they were just throwing out the idea, and ever since them, theyve

  • kind of been struggling figuring out what to do.

  • So, we had been in contact with them and said, hey, we’d love to start working with you

  • and seeing what we can offer. We sat down through a series of meetings, a lot of different

  • contract negotiations, trying to figure out what would be best, and what they decided

  • is all four of our services, our main services we offer, is really beneficial, and so we

  • do written translation for them, oral interpreting, we do language training, not just English,

  • but we do language training in several different languages for a lot of the European and American

  • players, and then also cross-cultural training as well, and most of those are preparing the

  • girls to go to new countries and just preparing them just for diversity in general.

  • All the new rookies, there’s about twenty new rookies every year, and those rookies,

  • they all go through one hour, one-on-one training with us just on diversity, how to understand

  • new cultures, especially if theyre Americans. They may not really have been exposed to many

  • different cultures, and so we work on that with them.

  • What we do is we bring our computers on site, and then the players come. We usually teach

  • in their clubhouse or their dining area, and so we just have the laptops set up, have the

  • headphones ready, and they just get on, and their teacher is on the internet here at our

  • location working with them. I work with all the players, but I don’t

  • teach them all, so I see them on a daily basis at the tournaments. We walk around, talk with

  • them, see how their doing, what are their needs, especially for those with English.

  • What are they really struggling with that day? What interviews can we help them prepare

  • for? So, were really not just teaching English, but everything we do is for a specific

  • purpose. If the girls tell us, I really need to work

  • on pro-ams, talking with people. I need to understand the forty, fifty year-old American

  • male culture. How do I talk with them? What do we talk about? We really try to gear that,

  • or some girls will say, I got three interviews this week; one is Golf Channel, one is ESPN.

  • Here’s the questions they gave me. Can we just role play dialogue and help me prepare

  • for that? A lot of them, especially if theyre coming

  • from Korea, theyre education level is not always as high, so if they started playing

  • professional golf at eleven, that’s really the age when they stopped going to school,

  • so their confidence level in anything academic is very low we have found, so even their reading

  • level, their speaking level in their native language is not very high, and so just working

  • with the teacher one-on-one, weve really had to work hard to establish a relationship,

  • and then, not only that, but then were speaking English; they really have very little

  • confidence, so if you feel comfortable and you like a language, if you feel comfortable

  • with that person with the language, youll like that language more.

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[E. Tomasik] What we really try to target for our business is what we callbusiness

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