Business Spanish – A Needs Analysis to focus your Goals

To identify exactly what further skills you need to acquire in Spanish for Business, this Needs Analysis may help you. Print it out and fill it in. It will help you define aims and objectives for your Business Spanish.

The following are skills you have in Spanish language. Which of these skills do you now need to need to improve?

Use this Needs Analysis Tool to identify your priorities. List them in order of importance to your needs, giving an approximate percentage to signify importance: Comprehension; Communication; Writing.

Spanish Comprehension

Listening to, understanding spoken Spanish in your Business· Socialising with and meeting Spanish visitors, colleagues as part of your business life:.

  1. Conferences
  2. One-to-one meetings
  3. One-to-one Telephone Calls
  4. Conference calls
  5. Making Presentations on specific topics (list please list).

In which of these situations do you expect you may have to communicate in Spanish?

Which of these situations do expect you may need to comprehend Spanish?

Communicating in Spanish

To which of these categories of people do expect to speak Spanish at business?

  1. Customers
  2. Colleagues in your Office, business
  3. Colleagues in other Offices, Businesses(please state where)
  4. Those working under you in your business
  5. Potential business customers
  6. Your business supervisor
  7. Other superiors

Reading Spanish in Business

You may work with the following Written Texts in Spanish at work, interpreting them understanding them. List them in order of frequency of encounter giving an approximate percentage to signify importance:

  1. Legal business contracts in Spanish
  2. General interest articles, current affairs, business affairs.
  3. Formal business e-mails
  4. Informal, chatty e-mails
  5. Reports (give details)
  6. Memos
  7. Business letters
  8. Faxes
  9. Official notices (assemble examples, templates in English).
  10. Agendas
  11. Minutes
  12. Updating your business websites (please give example)
  13. Particpating in Spanish Chat, IRC etc
  14. Others (please give details)
  15. Specialist articles on :
    • sales;
    • marketing;
    • technology;
    • engineering;
    • medicine; health care business
    • telecommunications;
    • other (specify)

Written Spanish

Do you, on occasion, need to DRAFT any of the above documents in Spanish? Which 5 of these document types do you write most often in Spanish (in order of frequency)? With which of the above do you need help and guidance with list (in order of importance)?

Mastery of Spanish Grammar

Perhaps, this can be worked in conjunction with agreed programme of Written Spanish for Business

Specialist Spanish Vocabulary

Please give details of area and extent. Perhaps, you have catalogues, sles letters etc to hand that can give real focus to your Business Spanish

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