The part of a relocation package that decides whether it works
Companies budget carefully for flights, shipping and housing, then leave language to the employee. It is usually the thing that determines whether the family settles — and whether the assignment lasts.
What the programme covers
Pre-departure and on arrival
Start before the move with survival language and the admin vocabulary of the destination, then continue with the same tutor once they land. Continuity through the move is the point.
Partners and children included
Relocations fail because the family is unhappy far more often than because the employee cannot do the job. Partner and school-age children can be covered on the same programme.
Certificates where a visa needs one
Where residence or professional registration requires a named level, the programme targets that exam and format rather than general fluency.
The practical language first
Housing, banking, schools, healthcare and the specific bureaucracy of the destination — taught before the grammar that a textbook would cover first.
How it is phased
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Assess and plan
Placement for everyone travelling, the destination requirements, and the date the move happens. That date sets the whole schedule.
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Pre-departure
Intensive practical language in the weeks before the move, weighted toward listening and speaking rather than written accuracy.
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First months
Continued lessons through settling in, when motivation is highest and everyday friction is at its worst.
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Certification, if needed
Where a visa or professional body requires a level, exam-format preparation to that specific target and deadline.
Why the family matters commercially
An employee who can work in English but whose partner cannot open a bank account, talk to a school or see a doctor without help is an assignment at risk. Failed relocations are expensive — the cost of covering a partner's lessons is small against replacing a placement halfway through.
It is also the part employees remember. Language support for the family is consistently one of the most valued elements of a package, and one of the cheapest to provide.
Destinations
Common routes
German, French, Spanish and English are the languages we run most often for relocation, including the specific certification routes attached to residence and professional registration.
Anywhere else
Other languages depend on qualified tutors in a workable timezone. Tell us the destination and we will say honestly whether we can staff it properly rather than take the booking and hope.
Add language to your relocation package
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