Business Language Tuition | Babble and Speak

Languages mean Business!

Learning a language can make your business more attractive to foreign customers, can build positive working relationships with colleagues abroad, can inspire your workforce and can, in short, earn you money.

Babble and Speak Ltd are passionate about languages and about helping you to learn to express yourself in another language, so that you can wow your foreign clients and make those all-important sales. We know that time is money, and can send a tutor into your business to teach at your premises, so that you don’t have to spend time travelling to and from a language school.

We can work towards certification, eg. GCSE or A level, or simply towards a greater depth of knowledge for your employees. We are flexible and can teach in lunch hours, before or after working hours or at weekends. Rates are reasonable and competitive (see our Languages for Business price list).

Tutors are language graduates and/or native speakers, and many are PGCE qualified or have Qualified Teacher Status from their native country. We obtain references for all our tutors and interview them in person before they start to teach for us. Many of our tutors are like family members and have been teaching for us for years, and are requested time after time by our customers.

We offer a wide variety of foreign languages and English as a Foreign Language. Our data base of languages is constantly updated, so, if your language is not mentioned, please do contact us.

I started using Babble and Speak for some personal tuition when I started work on a project in France and discovered I would be working closely with a colleague who wasn’t fluent in English. Having had several aborted attempts at previous language learning I was apprehensive but I soon found that the way the lessons were structured as well as the way I was given the flexibility to discuss my specific requirements ensured I began to look forward to the classes and quickly made progress. Within three months I have the confidence to email and carry out regular conversations in French, an added bonus has been that my learning has given impetus to my colleague to learn English so communication has become much less an issue than it was at the start of the project.

I can’t praise Babble and Speak, and especially Katie, highly enough for their help and approach over these months. There is still a long road to travel before I am fluent but its a journey I intend to take with Babble and Speak.

Andy Kerman
Manufacturing Systems Manager
Cadbury Schweppes

The range of activities we’ve done has been great fun, and I definitely feel that I’ve benefited from the sessions we’ve had so far. They have really increased my confidence in speaking French.

Pippa Powell
European Respiratory Society

I am a middle manager employed by the National Probation Service. Last year I was fortunate enough to be invited to Poland as part of a delegation from South Yorkshire Probation Service. I had no time to learn anything beyond a few key words and these had to suffice. This year I was invited back to Poland as a ‘friend’ and I was determined to demonstrate that I respected my friends in Poland enough to want to learn their language.

I researched available language tuition but was not able to find anything that fitted the bill until I came across ‘Babble and Speak’. I was immediately impressed by their warm and helpful response to my request for a teacher of Polish. Within a few days I was put in touch with Agnieszka and we embarked on a crash course in Polish. I found my teacher to be very patient (she needed to be!), structured and responsive to my needs as a student. She taught me what I wanted to know, not what she thought I ought to learn. Agnieszka, as a Pole, was also able to tell me much about the Polish culture and customs, thus helping me to avoid several potential faux pas. I was happy enough with the service to recommend ‘Babble and Speak’ both to my organisation and to several friends.

John Connelly
South Yorkshire Probation Service