Centre for Professional Development and Lifelong Learning

Foreign Languages

The Cave Hill Campus is the premier language centre in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean.  The campus has proven expertise in the teaching of French, Spanish, Portuguese and English as a Second Language.  The Campus has recently added Mandarin Chinese to its repertoire, with the opening of its Confucius Centre.  Our suite of language courses cater to the needs of persons who have no language training as well as the individuals who are seeking an advanced level of proficiency in their foreign language(s) of choice.   We also offer specialised language courses for businesspeople and tourism employees whose sphere of work demand meaningful interaction with individuals from countries where English is not the first language.

Foreign Languages

Beginner’s French for Business and Tourism

Beginner’s French for Business and Tourism

Overview

This course is designed to bring delegates who have no background in French to the point where they can communicate effectively with a native speaker of French through the four language skills of writing, reading, listening and speaking. You will develop the conversational vocabulary necessary to engage with French-speaking customers and business associates.

​Mode of Delivery: Face-to-Face

What will I Learn?

On successful completion of this course delegates will be able to:
 

  • Write paragraphs and/or emails
  • Listen and understand simple communications from a native speaker
  • Produce monologues on basic topics in French
  • Read instructions in French
  • Seek and give basic personal information (name, date of birth, age, address, telephone number)
  • Relate events using the present, future
  • Express likes, dislikes & hobbies
  • Make reservation in a hotel & restaurant
  • Ask for and give directions in French

Who Should do this Course

Business, tourism and hospitality workers or aspirants who wish to develop communicative competence in French; those who would like to develop a career path in the tourism and hospitality industries; anyone interested in learning another language; any person who likes to travel and wants to have meaningful conversations with French speakers.​ 

Important Information

 
 

At a Glance

  • Date: TBA
  • Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5pm - 7pm
  • Duration: 6 weeks (24 hours)
  • Certificate Awarded: Professional Development Certificate of Competence
  • CRN: 12275
  • Course Code: PDLL 148
  • CEUs: 2.4
  • Capacity: 20
  • Cost: BDS $1,335 (US $667.50)

The following topics will be addressed:

  • Greetings and Expressions of Courtesy
  • Introduction of self and others
  • Numbers /Dates
  • Family
  • Leisure time activities
  • Travelling
  • Restaurants & Hotel Reservation
  • Food and Dining
  • Giving Directions
  • Shopping
  • Grammar

The course will be delivered utilising two (2) contact sessions per week which all delegates must attend. The communicative method used will encourage all delegates to be actively involved in the course. They will also be engaged through:
 

  • Cooperative learning
  • Role play
  • Language laboratory
Desrine Bogle​

Dr. Desrine Bogle is a UWI Lecturer in French with over twenty years of experience in teaching French as a Foreign Language. She holds a doctorat d’état (PhD) in Translation Studies from the Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris, France. She is currently the Chief Examiner for CAPE French for the Caribbean Examinations Council, a member of the Alliance Française de Bridgetown and the Traduction et communication transculturelle (TRACT) research centre at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris.