The world is getting smaller every day. Better technology and cheaper, faster and more accessible travel are constantly helping to connect the world as a global village.
Travel options are now more diverse and learning a few words of the native language of your destination can help you get more out of your holiday. In a few lessons, you could learn Thai, learn French or languages for other popular holiday destinations.
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University offers courses to learn a variety of languages. Being based in Melbourne, which has one of the largest Greek populations of any city in the world, RMIT also offers courses that range from Greek for Beginners to advanced courses that teach fluency in listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Learning another language is interesting and will help you understand different cultures but it can also benefit your career. Competency in foreign languages is now seen as a significant draw card for employers, not just in the hospitality industry, but also those who deal with other business world leaders such as China, Japan and many nations within the European Union.
Holmesglen Institute of TAFE has a variety of courses that cater for such learning, allowing students to confidently navigate their way through the ins and outs of a new language. For example, there is a Conversational Japanese course that helps students to learn basic phrases and practical day-to-day skills useful for business travel, as well as a three tiered series of courses that expand knowledge of grammar and vocabulary, and teach fluency in even complex conversations.
Learning a new language often requires significant time, and finding enough time for the face-to-face hours such a course demands can be difficult. Thankfully, adult education institutions such as Sydney’s Cengage Education offer language courses to be completed by self study. This way, no matter where you are, you can learn French online, or learn Italian, or learn China’s most popular language Mandarin, all from the comfort of home and in hours that suit you.