Portuguese Courses for Business in Windsor

Designed and customised for the individual student’s needs, SIMON & SIMON’s Portuguese courses, taught by a team of qualified native Portuguese speakers who average 15 years of experience, have already benefited professionals and non-professionals across the UK. Courses cater for all levels of experience. The feedback on our Portuguese tutors that we receive from our clients is consistently excellent. Prior to the start of your Portuguese course, you will be sent a profile on your specific Portuguese teacher’s experience and background.

The way that modern languages are taught has gone through a revolution in the past few years. If you have only learned languages at school you will find that the experience now is vastly more fun and worthwhile. The Communicative Approach means that your Portuguese lessons in Windsor will be almost entirely through the medium of Portuguese. You will feel that you are making real progress, even in the first lesson, and will soon communicate in Portuguese with confidence, in a range of social and business environments.

Our Portuguese language courses are available on both a 1:1 and group basis, but the majority of our clients offer 1:1 Portuguese training to their employees. However, with careful planning, group training can offer great value for money, provided there is a real commitment from the participants to get together at the same time every week. We strongly recommend you keep group numbers to 6 or less for these types of courses to be successful. Those learning Portuguese in at Windsor on a 1:1 basis will naturally make much faster progress, as the course will be designed around their individual needs and focus on their particular strengths and weaknesses.

Portuguese Course Management

One of our highly experienced, multilingual Account managers oversees each SIMON & SIMON Portuguese language course. On starting your Portuguese course you will receive various materials including a profile on your trainer, a Course Plan and course materials and a Progress Report on every 40 hours of your training. Breaking the Language Barrier, our quarterly newsletter, which contains weblinks to various language learning sources and a prize draw, will also be sent to you.

SIMON & SIMON Portuguese language courses have been arranged for clients in various locations. We have a global network of trainers and wherever you are, we will be able to organise a Portuguese language course for you, not only in the UK but in almost any of the major cities in Europe and beyond. Most of our Portuguese courses are run at the offices of our clients so that you do not have to travel, but we are happy to arrange Portuguese training sessions for you in your home. Full-time Portuguese courses can be arranged in a residential setting for you. Our office has information on the locations we offer.

Windsor Portuguese Course Schedules

Our Portuguese language courses in Windsor go on all year. Some of our students attend more than one 90-minute weekly session if work circumstances allow, and most will attend at least one per week. Weekend Courses in Portuguese can be arranged on request. Our Portuguese courses are available 12 hours a day, from 8am to 8pm Monday through Friday. 30 hour per week intensive Portuguese courses can be held on clients’ premises or in residential centres in the UK or abroad. These courses take 6 hours per day, Monday through Friday.

We will tailor your Portuguese language course for your specific aims and level of knowledge. Before you start your Portuguese language course we will assess your goals and level of Portuguese experience. Your desire to learn Portuguese may be simply to develop basic skills, or you may have some level of proficiency and wish to increase your ability to use Portuguese to discuss business. You may want to develop your language skills so that you can use Portuguese in negotiations and meetings or improve your pronunciation and telephone skills. No matter what goals you have, you can be confident of our Portuguese trainers experience and that your Portuguese language course is tailored to your needs and your goals will be quickly met.

Portuguese Language Examination Courses

Our students’ pass rate for Portuguese examinations is at 95%, and we are happy to help with the preparations for any such examination. Our high pass rate shows the value of working with Portuguese teachers in Windsor who have a higher level of experience than average. SIMON & SIMON also arrange registration for Portuguese examinations as well as administering the examination and issuing the results.

The table below is based on recognised language levels used by various academic institutions accross the European Union. A highly motivated student attending weekly sessions with their language trainer can expect to move from one level to another after 50 hours providing they also commit to a similar number of hours of self-study.

Of course, some people find learning languages easier than others, and some students will have more opportunities to practise the language in the course of their work and leisure, so these factors also need to be considered when trying to assess how long it will take to move from one level to another.

Company Funded Training

If your company is thinking of investing in language training our free consultation and demo lesson is a real opportunity to see if SIMON & SIMON is right for you - hundreds of other companies have chosen SIMON & SIMON, so we hope you will join them.

To take up this special offer, please call Cristiana Aragoni, on 020 7931 9869 - quoting "Demo Lesson" - our no-obligation consultation and demo lesson is free of charge.

Self-Funded Training

If you are interested in taking one of our courses as a private individual, then our free demo lessons are a perfect opportunity for you to meet one of our language trainers, experience the teaching methodology firsthand, and for us to assess your level and course needs - all with no obligation.

Demo lessons typically last 1 hour, and take place at our offices in central London, close to Victoria Station.

To take up this special offer, please call Cristiana Aragoni, on 020 7931 9869 - quoting "Demo Lesson" - our no-obligation consultation and demo lesson is free of charge.

Portuguese is a Romance language developed from Galician-Portuguese that was spoken in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia. It is an official language of the European Union, the Organisation of American States, the African Union, and Lusophone countries. With around 240 million speakers, Portuguese is the sixth-most spoken language in the world. Portuguese is the official language of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Mozambique. According to estimates by UNESCO, Portuguese and Spanish are the fastest-growing European languages after English and the language has the highest potential for growth as an international language in southern Africa and South America.

Windsor is an affluent suburban town in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead in Berkshire, England. It is widely known as the site of Windsor Castle. The town is situated 21 miles (34 km) west of Charing Cross. It is immediately south of the River Thames, which forms its boundary with Eton. Windsor and the surrounding areas contain some of the most expensive and desirable housing in the UK. The village of Old Windsor, just over two miles to the south, predates what is now called Windsor by around 300 years; in the past Windsor was formally referred to as New Windsor to distinguish the two. The early history of the site is unknown, although the site was almost certainly settled many years before the medieval castle was built. Histories of the town note that the combination of the navigable river and the strategically-placed hill point to the likelihood of continuous human settlement from early times. Evidence includes archaeological finds from Windsor, such as palaeolithic hand-axes, neolithic flint picks, Bronze Age swords and an Iron Age brooch. Although Roman remains are few, there is ample evidence of Anglo Saxon settlement in the area.