AHLA Offers English-Spanish Phrase Guides for the Industry

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. October 14, 2008

ORLANDO, FL, October 2, 2007. The American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute (EI) is collaborating with Workplace Languages, LLC, to offer a series of booklets to help English- and Spanish-speaking workers better communicate with each other.

The KwikFixTM Survival English and Spanish Pocket Guides teach words and phrases commonly used in the lodging and restaurant industries. The guides' small size make them easy to keep on hand, while the pronunciation guides and "grammar-less" approach make it easy for anyone to get their point across, even if they have no previous knowledge of the language. Available titles are:

---|Survival Spanish for Hotel Management

---|Survival English for Spanish-Speaking Hotel Employees

---|Survival Spanish for Restaurant Management

---|Survival English for Spanish-Speaking Restaurant Employees

A Workplace Languages Quick Reference Poster highlights both industry-specific words and phrases as well as conversational Spanish-English phrases to help managers speak Spanish and Spanish speakers to communicate more effectively in English.

These products will be fulfilled through Workplace Languages shopping cart, www.workplacelanguages.com. EI customers must reference the promotional code (found on the EI Web site) to obtain the special pricing of $9.95 for each booklet, and $31.95 for the poster. Direct links to the products (including complete product descriptions) are at www.workplacelanguages.com/booklets.html and www.workplacelanguages.com/products.html. Click on "Add to Cart," enter the appropriate Discount Code and then click on "Apply Discount." Volume discounts are also available by calling the Educational Institute at 800-752-4567.

To learn more, visit www.ei-ahla.org or www.workplacelanguages.com/booklets.html .

Established in 1953 as a nonprofit educational foundation of the American Hotel & Lodging Association, the Educational Institute's mission is to support AH&LA by becoming the preferred provider to the lodging industry, hospitality schools, and related hospitality industries both domestically and internationally by developing and providing quality resources to train, educate, and certify hospitality professionals...