It is VITAL for employees to deal with other countries
Apart from the training sessions to improve the skills of workers, management and production practices, several industries also offer foreign language training to their employees.
Since Coimbatore’s strengths are in the engineering and textile sectors, the demand for learning Japanese and German are more here. While some companies sponsor the language courses, some employees enrol voluntarily.
One of the large companies here trained a group of its staff in Chinese as it has a manufacturing facility in China.
However, when it sends employees to other countries on short-trips, they take the services of translators.
The demand for learning Japanese has gone up in Coimbatore in the last few years, not only from college students but also small industries that do business with Japan, said S. Shanmuga Priya, director of ABK-ATOS DOSOKAI here.
According to Goethe-Zentrum, of the total number of candidates enrolling for German courses, 10 per cent to 15 per cent are employees. But, the number is going up every year.
Some industries, especially the medium-scale ones, might not want to spend on translators in other countries. Hence, they identify the team that will be travelling abroad frequently and enroll them in the foreign language courses here.
There are graduates and employees who plan to join a company abroad and they take foreign language courses here to equip themselves.
The cost of learning a foreign language here is also less than learning it in the respective countries, say industry sources.
Apart from the training sessions to improve the skills of workers, management and production practices, several industries also offer foreign language training to their employees.
Since Coimbatore’s strengths are in the engineering and textile sectors, the demand for learning Japanese and German are more here. While some companies sponsor the language courses, some employees enrol voluntarily.
One of the large companies here trained a group of its staff in Chinese as it has a manufacturing facility in China.
However, when it sends employees to other countries on short-trips, they take the services of translators.
The demand for learning Japanese has gone up in Coimbatore in the last few years, not only from college students but also small industries that do business with Japan, said S. Shanmuga Priya, director of ABK-ATOS DOSOKAI here.
According to Goethe-Zentrum, of the total number of candidates enrolling for German courses, 10 per cent to 15 per cent are employees. But, the number is going up every year.
Some industries, especially the medium-scale ones, might not want to spend on translators in other countries. Hence, they identify the team that will be travelling abroad frequently and enroll them in the foreign language courses here.
There are graduates and employees who plan to join a company abroad and they take foreign language courses here to equip themselves.
The cost of learning a foreign language here is also less than learning it in the respective countries, say industry sources.