WHY CONTRACT OUR LANGUAGE TEACHING SERVICES?

• We have more than 24 years of experience.
• The operations & customer service areas lead experienced second language teachers who contribute to the added value of the service you receive:
  1. José Luis Fonseca, Director, English teacher with 26 years of experience
  2. Karen Allen, Operations Manager, career teacher with 30 years of experience
  3. Miguel Anaya, Sales Coordinator and Customer Service, English teacher with 17 years of experience
• The director of this business will attend to you personally.
• The company has a solid infrastructure to attend to its students:
  • Teaching personnel: Our Operations Manager is in charge of recruitment, resourcing and supporting teachers. Of our 30 instructors, around 80% are native English speakers. All have either formal university training &/or TESL & CELTA certificates. The training is handled by an instructor with ample experience of teaching English as a second language (ESL).
• Customer Service & Operations:
  • These areas deal with the necessities of our clients. We pride ourselves on being as flexible as possible to further serve our clients. We offer a plentiful & diverse set of options for course material and group structure. We send a monthly attendance report with grades to our clients. In order to generate this report & control our classes we have implemented a new robust web-based system (Resolve), exclusively designed so that our clients can access information and reports promptly from their offices. Resolve provides the guarantee that all our courses at AHPLA undergo a strict QUALITY CONTROL PROCESS. The area of OPERATIONS has the responsibility of directly monitoring the students' satisfaction by means of visits, emails & telephone calls. This area also is dedicated to helping our instructors receive all the necessary & extra curricular materials necessary.
• Our exams to determine the English level of our candidates can be administered through an interview with no charge to our clients. Our instructors go to the candidates address, administer a multiple choice exam & carry on a conversation with the candidate. This exam is only administered by instructors with experience teaching English as a second language. In a case in which there is no time for the interview, we have an on line exam; in this situation, the determination of the oral level would be through a telephone interview.
• AHPLA Institute is an exclusive representative of Cincilingua, member of TESOL (Teaches of English to Speakers of Other Languages).

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SPANISH COURSES FOR FOREIGNERS

Take advantage of our experience in executive language instruction. Our Spanish courses have produced excellent results at companies such as Procter and Gamble, Nestlé, Citibank, KLM, Zurich, Singer, Aon, Volvo, Hollingsworth as well as the Irish Embassy.

Our Spanish courses are taught by teachers whose mother tongue is Spanish and who hold university degrees in areas such as linguistics, Spanish literature and related career areas. Our Spanish courses are conveniently taught in your office. The schedule of your class is adapted to your specific needs. Our Spanish program includes all levels. In the case of basic courses, we place more emphasis on the development of listening and oral skills. Once students reach the intermediate levels there is more emphasis on reading skills. Our Spanish program is designed to help our customers develop the communicative skills to get out of the Spanglish rut!

AHPLA SPANISH PROGRAM

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Intensive Programs in the US and Mexico

Intensive programs usually last from six to eight hours per day. They are divided into weekly segments. The length of intensive programs is 2 weeks minimum. Our intensive programs include a lunch session that is held with a native instructor. The weekly segments include private or group instruction, participant materials, business language instruction, accommodation, and of course the experience of learning about the culture of the country where the language is spoken.

Our international alliance with Cincilingua in Cincinnati, Ohio allows you to take intensive programs in environments and places where English is spoken 24/7. Our AHPLA full-time intensive programs in Mexico City can be carried out at our language centers and in Monterrey on your premises.

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LANGUAGE COURSES

Cours de Français AHPLA

AHPLA French Course

As in the case of other AHPLA executive language programs, your French course may be conveniently held in your workplace. We provide both group and private instruction using a curriculum adapted to meet the individual needs of each participant.

At AHPLA not only will you learn French for general purposes business, but you will also learn the French language used in the business world. Following the tradition of AHPLA, offering courses instructed by teacher who teach their mother tongue or who have a full command of the language, our French program will provide you with a wide variety of idioms, expressions and teaching styles of experienced top-notch language instructors from France, Switzerland, Canada and Mexico. It is important to point out that all our instructors have the appropriate profile to teach a foreign language. Additionally, they participate in an orientation training program when they join our team.

LEVELS

The AHPLA French Program is structured as follows:

The materials used for our French program include the following:

• Textbook.
• Workbook.
• CDs.
• Magazines written in French such as LE FIGARO or LE CHRONIQUEUR.
• French Newspapers like LE FIGARO or LE MONDE.
• Publications in French available on Internet such as COURRIER INTERNATIONAL and RADIO CANADA (audio included).
• Exercises on INTERNET. A great many activities relating to grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary. These activities are very useful and you can access them at no additional cost.

Frederic Barras, Swiss French instructor and translator would like to extend the following invitation to our clientele -if you can't understand the following message you'll solve your comprehension problem by taking our French course-:

Si vous désirez apprendre ou améliorer votre français, nous pouvons vous proposer un cours quelque soit votre niveau. N'hésitez pas à prendre contact avec notre secrétariat pour de plus amples renseignements. Nous vous attendons!

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English Courses

We provide both group and private instruction using a curriculum adapted to meet the individual needs of each participant.

At AHPLA not only will you learn business and global English, but you will also encounter a wide variety of specialized programs taught by experienced top-notch language instructors from the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia, and Mexico. This cross section will allow you to benefit from a wide variety of idioms and cultures. In addition, all our instructors participate in an orientation program when they join our team and an on-going educational training program to ensure educational standards of the highest quality.

Your course may be conveniently held in your workplace.

AHPLA ENGLISH COURSES

BASIC / INTERMEDIATE COURSES

ADVANCED COURSES

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NEW MODERN, CONVERSATIONAL & BUSINESS CHINESE COURSES

We provide both Modern (Mandarin) and Business Chinese Courses for groups and one-to-one instruction using a curriculum adapted to meet the individual needs of each participant.

At AHPLA you will experience Chinese by taking our specialized programs instructed by LANGUAGE INSTRUCTORS FROM CHINA. Our programs include a wide variety of BOOKS, CDs/MP3s, VISUALS, CHANTS, and GAMES to learn to speak Chinese while having fun. Only AHPLA has the most comprehensive educational program with MATERIALS IMPORTED DIRECTLY FROM CHINA. These materials ensure educational standards of the highest quality.

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NEW AHPLA MODERN CHINESE

The NEW AHPLA MODERN CHINESE program is suitable for adults who want to learn vocabulary and grammar appropriate for HSK (Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, Chinese Proficiency Test). In addition to useful vocabulary and practical sentence patterns, this course also includes Pinyin which helps learners with tones and pronunciation rules. The textbooks used for this course have been compiled by professors from Beijin Language University.

The main components of this course are:

• Conversation and Text
• New Words
• Pinyin
• Pronunciation Practice
• Exercises
• Oral Practice
• Reading

AHPLA CONVERSATIONAL CHINESE

The AHPLA CONVERSATIONAL CHINESE program is based upon the most popular Chinese textbook for foreigners all over the world at present. This conversational program encompasses practical communicative functions such as greeting and making an acquaintance (to name a few). It also includes vocabulary and the principles of Chinese grammar for adult learners.

The communicative approach used in this course places emphasis on language usage through conversational grammar patterns.

Each chapter is divided into six sections:

1. Sentences
2. Conversation
3. Substitution and Extension
4. New Words
5. Grammar
6. Exercises

AHPLA BUSINESS COMMUNICATION IN CHINESE

INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

The AHPLA BUSINESS COMMUNICATION IN CHINESE course has been developed for executives who have already learned basic Chinese and need to communicate in the business world. It is a concise communicative program which includes real life situations such as the following: Learning how to introduce oneself, learning job titles, job descriptions, organizational structures, directions, locations of the work place, work on the internet, consumer behavior, financial terminology, strategic planning, cultural differences and community contribution.

The AHPLA BUSINESS COMMUNICATION IN CHINESE program is structured as follows:

Each chapter is divided into six sections:

1. Words and Expressions
2. Key Sentence Patterns
3. Listening Tasks
4. Speaking Tasks
5. Business Tasks
6. Further Reading
7. Supplementary Vocabulary

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