learnwell oy company presentation

COMPANY PRESENTATION

Learnwell Oy is a Helsinki based company, providing a variety of professional language services to individuals and companies, including:

• language training, special intensive courses and custom-designed courses

• translation, interpreting, proofreading and editing services

• dedicated services (our X-file products) that include monthly support for ongoing small translation, editing and proofreading tasks, corporate team-building trainings, and Expat services

• web tools for teachers and students

Learnwell Oy

Supporting you in the world of languages!

Company Presentation © Learnwell Oy


Learnwell Oy Supporting you in the world of languages!

Contents

Language instruction for your company 3 Corporate language training 4 Course planning, execution and reporting 5 Intensive courses 6 Specialized business modules 7 Language training prices 8 Translation, interpreting, proofreading and editing services 9 Services and languages 10 Translation: fields of expertise 11 Interpreting in Finland 12 Interpreting abroad 13 Video & audio translations and voice-overs 14 Rates, discounts and turnaround time 15 Translation quotes 16 Dedicated services: X-file products 17 X-test, free assessment testing 18 More about: X-step, small texts for translation and proofreading 19 X-text service, your press-releases written by native speakers 20 Company-X-material, company specific material 21 a-Xent course, different accents of English 22 Location-X, video conference and web-based courses 23 X-games, team building games 24 eX-pat service, support for foreigners in Finland 25 X-questionnaire, defining your language training needs 26 X-trial, free trial lesson 27 X-customer, language skills evaluation within the workplace 28 X-partners, globalization and internationalization support 29 Web Tools and Materials for Teachers and Students 30 Web projects and online shop 31 Contact us 32



Language instruction

for your company

It is important in today's global business environment that communication with colleagues and customers is fluent. Advanced language skills are valuable. So investing in those skills can have a significant effect on a company's success. At Learnwell Oy we are able to help your company's employees reach their desired level of skill or maintain the level they have already achieved, including reactivating dormant speaking skills. Learnwell Oy strives to offer a modern, effective, high-quality, and multifaceted program of language learning to each of our customers.



Modern, effective, high-quality, and multifaceted language training programs in:

More about the language training programs: group instruction focuses on acquiring fluency and

reinforcing effective communicative behaviors tailor-made courses that reflect customer needs and

wishes material costs are included in the price of the lesson;

lessons are held at the customer's premises

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Swedish Finnish English French German Spanish Arabic Italian Russian

Czech Polish Danish Icelandic Norwegian Portuguese Chinese Estonian Japanese



Corporate language training includes special services such as:

language testing with a written report before the start of a course (free of charge!)

a brief monthly attendance report flexible schedules open contracts: you may start and end your courses

anytime, no obligation to buy a set of 20 , 30 or 40 lessons

a post-course analysis that summarizes the topics covered in the course, the situations practiced, the materials used, the individual activity level of each participant, participant progress, and suggestions for further training, as well as feedback from questionnaires filled out by course participants Co

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Cross-cultural awareness courses meant to enable you to interact successfully with foreign colleagues, clients or business partners:

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ENGLISH Meetings, presentations and negotiations Multicultural etiquette course Customer service course Pronunciation in English Telephoning in English

SWEDISH Affärssvenska Finanssvenska Idiomatiska uttryck Konversationssvenska Korrepondens på svenska Kundservice på svenska Möten, presentationer och förhandlingar Nordiska skillnader och likheter Sjuk-och hälsovårdssvenska Svensk grammatik Telefonssvenska Uttal

FRENCH Faux amis et expressions idiomatiques

Français de la correspondance commerciale Français des affaires Français du droit Français du tourisme Français médical, santé Gastronomie, cuisine Journaux et actualités du jour La communication téléphonique en français Maison et jardin, aménagement intérieur Prononciation

CHINESE Doing business in China and cultural differences

ROMANIAN Romanian language, culture and business etiquette

RUSSIAN Russian language, culture and business etiquette

POLISH Polish language, culture and business etiquette



Specialized modules offering you a chance to practice authentic communication. English is taught with a view to its practical application through role-plays, group work and simulations.

Specialized modules can be included in a language training course or organized as a one-day intensive course.

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1. Asking questions, socializing, descriptions

2. Body language 3. Business ethics, ethical

marketing 4. Business idioms 5. Business news 6. Business writing 7. Companies, jobs and

professions 8. Comparisons, agreeing

and disagreeing 9. Contracts 10. Corporate entertaining 11. Cultural awareness 12. Customer service 13. Decision making 14. E-commerce 15. Economic and social

context 16. Evaluation and

performance appraisal 17. Finance and accounting 18. Human resources and

personnel 19. Information technology

20. International trade 21. Job interviews and

careers 22. Logistics and transport 23. Management 24. Media and advertising 25. Meetings 26. Negotiations 27. Presentations and graphs 28. Processes 29. Productions and

operations 30. Relocation 31. Reporting 32. Sales, marketing,

distribution, image, after-sales and production

33. Social and environmental issues

34. Team building 35. Telephoning 36. The do’s and don'ts of

different business cultures

37. Travel



Choose the formula which suits you best: private lessons, group lessons or intensive training programs and contact us for a language training offer:

Notes: 1. All prices include a language test prior to the course, the course

fee, teacher’s travel expenses within Helsinki, course materials and a post-course evaluation report.

2. 22% VAT will be added 3. Each lesson is 2x45 min. or 2x60 min.

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LANGUAGE TRAINING PRICES

Private lesson 45 min. 60 €

Group lesson

(2 – 10 persons) 45 min. 75 €

Intensive courses and specialized modules

8x45 min. Contact us for an offer!



Translation, interpreting, proofreading and editing services Translation, interpreting,

proofreading and editing services

Learnwell Oy’s mission is to support the entry of our clients’ products and services into the international market offering reliable and high quality translation and localization services. We focus mainly on translations into and from the Nordic languages. Our translation services can help you translate your texts into and from more than 40 languages. Quality, reasonable prices and close communication with our clients are the cornerstones of our professional services. Visit www.thelanguagemenu.com to get more acquainted with our services.



We focus mainly on translations into and from the Nordic languages.

Our extensive network of native-speaking collaborators allows us to translate your texts into and from more than 40 languages, in a large range of specialized fields of expertise. Our services include:

Document translation: translation, proofreading, language QA, legal certification Interpreting: conference, ad-hoc meeting, discussion over the phone Multimedia: subtitles, dubbing, voiceover, presentations Website and software localization: localization, documentation

We offer added value through: translator selection, project

management, quality control, file conversions and standardized presentation of multilingual projects.

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Advertising/Media: advertising materials, from banners to posters, articles and videos Art/Literature: literary texts such as novels, poems, plays Business/Financial: documents relating to the fields of

business (correspondence, company accounts, tender documents, reports), and texts of a financial nature (from asset management to stocks and bonds) Forestry/Paper: documents relating to the fields of

forestry and paper IT/Internet/E-commerce: user's handbook, instruction

leaflets, multilingual websites Law/Patents: legal documents such as statutes, contracts

and patents Marketing: from briefs to training materials Medical: the medical field texts from the packaging of

medicine to manuals for medical equipments and books Science: documents relating to science ranging from thesis

to articles Social Sciences: documents relating to social sciences Technical/Engineering: from monthly newsletters to

technical manuals and instructions

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Our interpreting services can support you in your international contacts and activities. We offer interpreting services in Finland in the following language pairs

Finnish-English-Finnish Finnish-Czech-Finnish Finnish-Polish-Finnish French-Spanish-English French-Romanian-French Russian-Spanish-Russian Polish-Czech-Polish German-English-German English-French-English English-Spanish-English English-Romanian-English English-Czech-English English-Polish-English English-Russian-English Danish-English-Danish English-Basque-English In

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We also offer simultaneous interpreting services abroad:

And in other countries: Japan, Macedonia, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Sweden, Turkey and Ukraine.

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Chinese-English-Chinese Croatia

English-Croatian-English English-Serbian-English English-Bosnian-English

Estonia

English-Estonian-English Finnish-Estonian-Finnish Danish-Estonian-Danish Swedish-Estonian-Swedish

France

English-French-English Bulgarian-French-Bulgarian Spanish-French-Spanish

Germany

English-German-English French-German-French Swedish-German-Swedish

Great Britain

English-French-English English-Italian-English English-Maltese-English

Hungary

English-Hungarian-English German-Hungarian-

German German-English-German Italian-Hungarian-Italian Italian-English-Italian Spanish-Hungarian-Spanish



We offer specialized services that go beyond text translation.

Our range of specialized translation services include: video & audio translation of television commercials or

corporate training videos voice-overs (“dubbing”) of television commercials or

corporate training videos subtitling of films

The native-speaking, quick turnaround and cost effective

video and audio translations or voice-over services will enable you...

to deliver your project in your customer's language to market your message in as many formats and

languages as you need Visit our website www.thelanguagemenu.com to listen to voice-over samples in several languages.

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You can quickly calculate the price for your translation using our online price calculator, or you can send your text to us via e-mail for an estimate at : [email protected]

We calculate prices based on the source language, NOT the target language. In this way we can send you an offer immediately including all costs:

For large translation and proofreading projects we offer discounts of up to 25%.

Standard translations are delivered within 3 to 7 days, depending on the nature of your document and its size. If your deadlines are more pressing, we can deliver your translation much earlier than standard, still at competitive rush rates.

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Source words Number of words in the original text

EUR 0.22 – 0.24 (depending on language

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Send us your text for a free quote! You will receive our offer within 24 hours at the latest (and in many cases a good deal earlier than that), and we will:

consult with you about special instructions and time

requirements; estimate the price based on: turnaround times (how

quickly you want it back), the nature of your document (language in a specialized area), and its size (taking into account the number of pictures or tables in the document) perform the services according to the instructions

agreed upon with you return the prepared text to you on time either in print

or electronically attach any official certification your documents require

…or you can quickly calculate the price for your translation using our online price calculator!

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Dedicated services

X-file products

More than 10 dedicated services are available for our customers, ranging from products such as company specific vocabulary and quality material for your company's exact needs (Company X-material) to FREE language assessment testing of your staff (X-test).



If you are thinking of investing in language training for yourself or your staff, let us help define your needs with free assessment testing.

Learnwell Oy is taking a more modern approach testing English and Swedish language skills by using an on-line test. The test consists of vocabulary and grammar questions and will be available from autumn 2008. And best of all: as a client of Learnwell Oy you will be able to take advantage of testing your whole company FREE of charge.

At any time during the test, the participant can end the session and his progress up to that point will be recorded. The participant can continue the test later on. Questions are shuffled for each test taker and the final results can be seen online.

The final report illustrates the level of each participant, as

well as all strengths and weaknesses pertaining to it. The results are presented to the training manager in a professional, comprehensive digital report, which includes:

a statistical report per participant showing the number of correct, incorrect, and unanswered responses to each question

a report summarizing all test scores recorded Each participant will also receive: an individual report showing the final results a report on the wrong answers with explanations (the

report can also be discussed in class with the teacher)

To try out our online test just contact: [email protected]

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Our dedicated services (X-file products) include X-step (extra ongoing small translations, editing and proofreading).

Through X-step we provide a monthly help-desk

translation service for our existing customers: translation of small texts proofreading of small texts editing of small texts double checking of small texts

Contact us for more information on this service or visit

our X-file pages. Take an eXtra-step to getting your message across by

contacting us for any small-scale language questions!

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Have press-releases and texts written by native speaking professionals! Put your best foot forward internationally by ensuring that your foreign language text is taken seriously!

Our team of professionals can get your message across

with the right tone, the way only a native speaker of the language could.

Learnwell Oy can provide you with this service in a myriad

of different languages. Style, tone and cultural appropriateness are taken into consideration and discussed with you so that what you want to say is interpreted exactly the way you intended.

Let us help you avoid misinterpreting and cultural faux pars with X-text.

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Available for the first time in Finland from Learnwell Oy: ...company specific vocabulary and graphics…introduced to

our interactive website to enable high quality material to be created for you company’s exact linguistic needs!

Send us jpg digital pictures of your products, for highest quality, and we will custom make material in the language combinations of your request. If you lack the digital pictures we can scan them from pre-existing brochures and pamphlets or take them from your company web page. This method, however, will produce inferior quality graphics compared to original jpg photographs.

OUR GOAL: to teach you precisely what you require using

dynamic, creative, fun methods.

We make your needs ours!

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Speakers of English as a second language will soon outnumber those who speak it as a first language. The communicators of English in Europe are speaking it as a second, third or even fourth language with a variety of different accents. Even English as a first language is spoken with multitude of accents and colloquialisms.

Choose from a myriad of combinations at your disposal,

teaching everything from executive business, telephoning, correspondence, finance and cross-cultural differences, issues etiquettes and colloquialisms.

a-Xents include:

Learnwell Oy can structure special courses, custom made for your needs, which feature a vast collection of teachers with diverse accents and backgrounds. Material and course themes can be specially designed to suit your exact requirements.

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British

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Australian

French

German

Swedish

Spanish

Russian

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Language training supplied using the latest technology video-conferencing equipment and courses over the computer.

Nationally and internationally adaptable, let the new

Location-X service from Learnwell Oy supply your staff with courses wherever they may be.

Provided that you have the necessary equipment at your

chosen locations, specific times can be arranged to broadcast language courses to any number of different destinations. Material can be e-mailed to participants prior to lessons and discussions and training can be held in a videoconference or via Skype.

The price of this innovative new method of language

training remains the same as any of our regular courses. Save your company hard cash by combining staff, in many different locations, into one course.

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Do you need an input of energy at your seminars? The modern world continues to become more fluid and

dynamic. Individuals are now required to work with many different groups of people in their professional as well as personal lives. Joining a new group and immediately being expected to get along with them is somewhat unnatural.

Learnwell Oy organizes team building days in English and

Swedish to create and strengthen a healthy team spirit in your staff. Get the most out of your employees by giving them creative opportunities to think outside the box.

Sessions range from two to four hour sessions of X-games activities including: team related games presentations communication problem solving perception evaluation self-management

Let us motivate and invigorate your staff in this fun

and exciting way!

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For many foreigners, moving to Finland is a cultural shock not only because of the climate, but also because of our way of life. Immigrants living in Finland on a permanent basis should be encouraged to integrate into their new home country.

The aim of Learnwell Oy’s eX-pat service is to provide

immigrants living in Finland with sufficient skills to cope with everyday routines. Our Finnish and Swedish teachers help foreigners integrate into the Finnish society by providing them with information on how to attend to their own affairs in Finland.

Our eX-pat service helps foreigners with: the paperwork at KELA (Social Insurance Institution

of Finland) getting a driving licence or identity card bills and other mail finding a flat or buying one going to the pharmacy or shopping … and many other things that need to be done when

you settle down in a foreign country It is also important for foreigners to learn the differences

between the values, norms and attitudes of their own and Finnish culture, as this will help them to adjust to life in Finland. They will become independent and self-motivated.

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A company new to international activity may find it difficult to know what is really needed in terms of language services.

X-questionnaire covers more than just language training needs. This FREE service involves personal collaboration with you to produce a unique set of questions, defining such things as:

the learners' existing skill in the language and knowledge of the culture

the situations in which the learners expect to use their skills once acquired

personal learner targets topic oriented courses (for intensive courses) the necessity for distance learning or video conferencing

Once we have adapted a questionnaire to your needs, Learnwell Oy upload the questionnaire on the internet and send it out to all defined parties during a designated time. X-questionnaire will take no more than ten minutes to answer. We will then print and compile all results into clear summarized reports for your convenience free of charge.

Through X-questionnaire we can effectively group participants according to ability, design programs to meet your company's needs and build motivating factors for individual participants. We like to know what each individual wants, what the company needs and then aim to achieve the ideal balance.

X-questionnaire: Helping you define your needs

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Finding language training solutions that suit you personally is as much about chemistry as it is about cost and content.

Put us to the test with X-trial; a free, no obligation, 90 minute trial lesson where you can feel for yourself if Learnwell Oy is right for you.

Make an appointment, at a time and place convenient for you and one of our teachers who specializes in the language of your choice. He/she will meet you to show you why Learnwell Oy is one of the fastest growing Language Training institutions in Finland.

X-trial can be conducted for individual students or small

groups and will concentrate on the topics of your choice.

Give us a call today and book an X-trial! You can walk away with a smile and a little extra knowledge

without spending a cent

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X-customer is an accurate, reliable and hands-on method for evaluating the language skills of your employees within the workplace.

The purpose of X-customer is to help your business improve employee customer service skills for foreign customers. The evaluation can be carried out as a “surprise” visit to nominated locations or as a “surprise” phone call.

How does it work? we select native speakers from our teachers, according

to the language required a set of questions, the location and time is agreed upon

with you after the evaluation, a report is sent to you a special language module can be created to respond to

the language needs of your staff (see Company-X-material)

See your business through the eyes of your foreign customers!

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Would you like to explore new markets and take advantage of the possibilities offered by the dynamically developing economies (Romania, China, Saudi Arabia, Japan)?

As a language services provider Learnwell Oy offers specialized services that support globalization and internationalization.

Through our dedicated service X-partners we can support

your entry on the foreign markets through: translating your current website and promotional

materials identifying appropriate business partners presenting your company on our website and in our

newsletters interpreting services when attending exhibitions,

business meetings or negotiations helping you with information on how to market your

business in the different countries

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Web Tools and Materials for Teachers and Students Web Tools and Materials

for Teachers and Students

“The Language Menu” is an educational project from Learnwell Oy which provides teachers and students across the world FREE resources and ready-made exercises to be used in classes, along with the much needed tools to create original and personalized materials. The Language Menu is a free site for everyone to make language education easier, more accessible and more fun. Teachers seeking to use web-based activities in their classroom and students who seek material for independent study will find a common space on “The Language Menu” website.

www.thelanguagemenu.com



Our INNOVATIVE WEB PROJECT offers resources for learning and teaching a wide range of languages, including some of the world’s rarer languages. The Language Menu’s website is regularly updated and features:

18 tools for teachers and 6 online vocabulary and grammar interactive games for students

35 languages and 2380 possible language combinations

35 vocabulary categories available online and a clip-art with over 2000 hand-drawn pictures and A4 thematic pictures

material bank with ready-to-print materials, grammar exercises and PowerPoint presentations (Telephoning in over 10 languages) and online dictionary

a space for speakers of some of the world’s more uncommon languages to be able to exchange ideas and be represented

Our ONLINE SHOP offers: teaching materials: vocabulary and grammar cards e-books for teaching and learning languages

The Language Menu project has received funding support from:

Finland-Denmark cultural fund Finland-Norway cultural fund Swedish cultural fund Swedish National Association of the Deaf which

gave us the use of their pictures of the Swedish sign language alphabet for our ClipArt gallery

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MD: [email protected] Tel: 050 531 1453 Translations: [email protected] Tel: 045 112 9724

Tehtaankatu 7 00140 Helsinki Finland General inquiries: [email protected] Phone: +358 45 130 1114

LEARNWELL OY

Thank you for your interest!

www.thelanguagemenu.com

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