Course description
Ranging from an intensive one-to-one Serbian course at our London training centre to an in-house Serbian course at your offices, Communicaid can provide you and your organisation with a language co urse that meets your requirements. With training centres in London, Paris, Frankfurt and New York providing countrywide coverage and partner organisations worldwide, Communicaid is uniquely placed to be your local, national and international training partner for Serbian courses.
Why a Serbian language course in London? Our Serbian courses are highly personalised and designed to improve your Serbian communication skills, whether your focus is social, business, financial, diplomatic or legal. Upon completion of a Serbian training course with Communicaid in London, you will have the confidence to communicate in Serbian with clients, suppliers and colleagues.
Location: In addition to our Serbian courses in London, we are also able to provide Serbian language training courses worldwide via our training centres and global partners.
Benefits of our Serbian language course
A Communicaid Serbian course will provide you with the ability to:
- Speak Serbian fluently and accurately
- Interact more confidently when visiting a Serbian-speaking region or dealing with Serbian
speakers
- Build rapport and strengthen relationships with Serbian-speaking colleagues and clients
through a show of interest in the Serbian language and culture
- Demonstrate goodwill and facilitate international communication at both a personal and
organisational level
Who should attend our Serbian school
A Communicaid Serbian course is suitable for:
- Anyone doing business with Serbia
- Business professionals conducting business regularly with Serbian speakers who wish to build
rapport and strengthen relationships by attending an Serbian course
- Anyone planning to relocate to a Serbian-speaking region and wishing to attend an Serbian
course in order to prepare in advance for their assignment
- Government and non-governmental agency representatives working in a Serbian-speaking
region who need to be able to communicate at all levels
Serbian course content
The content and format of your Serbian course will depend on your profession, proficiency in Serbian and objectives. Whether beginner, survival, intermediate or advanced, key areas covered in all our Serbian courses include:
- Spoken fluency
- Listening skills
- Pronunciation and accent
- Reading skills
- Telephone skills in Serbian
- Email skills in Serbian
- Sector-specific terminology
- Presentation & negotiation skills
Approach
Communicaid’s Serbian language training courses are available seven days a week, 365 days a year. Training takes place between 08:00 and 20:00 although courses are also available outside of these hours upon request.
Suitable tailored and published Serbian course materials will be used throughout, with recommendations on self-study material and extra reading made at the beginning and during your Serbian course.
We offer a variety of training formats for your Serbian course – from intensive, weeklong courses to extensive, modular lessons. Appropriate formats will be discussed during your diagnostic consultancy (please click here to read more about our approach).
Serbian course trainer
All Communicaid Serbian trainers are native speakers with a minimum of 3 years’ professional Serbian training experience. In addition to relevant academic and linguistic qualifications and experience, many of our Serbian trainers also possess considerable exposure and expertise in the professional world.
Your Serbian trainer will be assigned to you following the results of your diagnostic consultancy according to your objectives and areas of focus. Detailed below is a sample profile of a member of our Serbian training team.
AL
Since relocating to the UK, AL has worked as a translator, interpreter and trainer delivering Serbian courses to a variety of government organisations. She joined Communicaid in 1999 and has been an active member of the Serbian language team, involved in running and delivering Serbian course for a range of clients, including Foreign and Commonwealth Office employees.
AL has been working as a language teacher and translator since 1976. She initially started her teaching career as a teacher of English, teaching in schools and subsequently English for Diplomats in Belgrade.
c?????, srpski – Facts about the Serbian language
Serbian is the official language of Serbia, and one of the official languages of Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is estimated that there are approximately 12 million speakers of Serbian worldwide.
Serbian is part of the Western South Slavic group of the Slavic branch of the Indo-European family. While it is acknowledged that there are differences today in nuance, vocabulary and usage, Bosnian and Croatian are mutually intelligible with Serbian, having all been integrated into a single language, Serbo-Croat, during the era of communist Yugoslavia. As Yugoslavia broke up, the language also mirrored the break up, with three languages officially formed according to historical, cultural and political lines.
Serbian uses both Latin and Cyrillic alphabets to write in. Both Latin and Cyrillic alphabets have been modified to meet the needs of the Serbian language. There are thirty letters in each alphabet.
