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...Others, however, talk of a different kind of nitty-gritty. "Works councilors are always getting buy-out offers and threats," says Todd Toussaint, an American who ran a council at the Berlitz language schools before starting his own company. "I've been on both sides of the table and talked to a lot of councilors, and I can't see that they solve problems at smaller companies." His advice: know your value and fight for it, and if that doesn't work, quit...
...Anybody got a Berlitz...
...Berlitz schools, they are not. Along Quito's busy Avenida Amazonas, schools operate out of makeshift storefronts and converted homes. "We don't assure fluency, only that you will learn enough to get around," says Francisco Pastor, director of Academia Equinoccial. The regimen of four or five hours of daily classes plus afternoon, Spanish-only outings with instructors brings special meaning to "total immersion," often leaving the student exhausted by dinnertime, just when his host family is eager to engage him in small talk. "Listening was the hardest thing for me," says John Hale, 43, who studied in Quito with...
...color me skeptical about the whole baby-signing fad. I suspect that the real value of these programs is that they are extremely parent-baby intensive, requiring a ton of face-to-face interaction. To me, however, this interaction feels too specific. Too goal oriented. Too much like Berlitz...
...courses available online, but there are sites that help aggregate information on a broad range. Acadio.com is a site geared primarily toward those looking for career training and retraining. It collects courses and self-study products like books and software from more than 200 different continuing-education providers, including Berlitz, the Harvard Business School Press and the Lightbulb Press, publisher of The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money and Investing. Acadio also provides customer reviews. And within the next six months the site will introduce a function that allows a prospective student to take a five-minute sample...