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Shadow System

Bringing Context

The Shadow System was developed as a way to put the context back into traditional language learning. A teacher is assigned to your place of work and works each day on a rotation with your team members. The hands-on, real-life approach builds a strong bond between learners and their goal language, as they can instantly understand and connect that language to their daily activities.

Shadow System

In addition to shadowing, the trainer also has materials that they bring in each week in poster form, and these are posted up in employee areas. Each week has a different theme, based on the topics to be covered that week.

This system is most successful in the hospitality industry, or any customer-service related area. 

For more information and access to our case studies on the matter, please download ourbrochure here.

 

Our 360-Degree System

We call it a 360-degree system because it considers all sides of language acquisition, circling the learning with all the tools he/she needs to be successful. Just one module, live classes for example, is great BUT without the support of the other modules, it isn’t enough. We need you to surrounded, engulfed by your new language to fully learn it.

  • Acquisition and Practice

    Here, in our Live Classes, the language and skills are learned and practiced in real ways to ensure participants can understand and speak. The live lessons can be online, or in-office and are designed to deliver the most important and relevant information to the participants.

  • Realizing and Assessing

    Self study allows participants to see what they can do when not directly guided. They take a mental inventory on what they have grasped, and what still needs to be worked on.

  • Bringing Context

    The shadowing system is the best way to bring real context to learning. Context is valuable for language learning because it is the best way to encourage retention. Consider a baby learning their mother tongue; the only reason they remember vocabulary is because it is shown to them, not translated or explained in other words.

  • Building Confidence

    Without confidence, no one can speak a foreign language. Being able to speak to your peers in an autonomous and confidential manner through our system, allows learners to truly practice their skills, without fear of being wrong. That fear is what stops so much progress. Our system takes away that aspect of fear.

  • Making Connections and Providing Value

    Training camps are a great way to practice your language in a real setting, but more importantly, this is where we connect our new skills to our work. Participants see exactly what they can do, in real life. It’s an incredible value-add and the connects are valuable as well.

  • Support and Development

    Being supported by our team, and in contact with your trainers, provides participants with a highly motivational environment. We don’t let people slack and forget their goals. The constant contact was designed to further develop participants when they aren’t in physical classes, and the motivation is a positive externality.

  • Learn what your team can do, and how they can improve

    Our Level assessment module is available for both active participants and to those companies who wish to have us aid them in their hiring/promotion processes. Participants can gauge their own levels multiple times through our easy-to-use system, allowing them to track their own progress and see what they can do.

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FAQs

How does the shadowing system work?
A trained member of our team is placed in your workspace for the entire day or a chunk of hours. The trainer has weekly themes and language goals, that are outlined on materials and posters for the employees to see. The trainer then spends their day working with different groups/teams, doing what they do with them, and using the language they need in the moment they need it. This context helps them retain the language.
Do my customers see the shadowing trainer?
Not usually. The trainers are highly professional, and blend into their surroundings well. If your team operates in an industry such as hospitality, then the trainer will be around in your hotel or restaurant, but only in the pre-approved areas that are safe for them / your staff.
How do participants learn while doing the shadowing program?
They are given hands-on, tailored language training that is delivered with the immediate context of their actual jobs.