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The Tandem Language & Training Center renders language and culture, and tailor-made training courses based on defined didactic methodologies and goal-oriented pedagogies to professionals to meet the needs of the global labor market, and to serve mere personal interests on language acquisition. We provide profession-specific language and training courses with collaborative approach in the delivery. Our services are ably supported by a synergy with relevant industry stakeholders to address linguistic and cultural barrier in the international labor market.Our linguistic services are competently aligned with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) to ensure that aspiring speakers of a specific language are equipped with the comprehension skills in listening, speaking, writing, and reading at an accurately defined language proficiency level. Currently, the company’s main German language program has been nurturing the linguistic skills of highly motivated professionals who are bound to embark on a career in German-speaking region within the healthcare and medical industry. The course instructors include native speakers with the appropriate qualification in teaching German as a foreign language.

Objectives

To be the pioneer language and training center for international-minded professionals with world-class standard, Tandem Language & Training Center strives to exceed the expectations of its stakeholders by aiming for the achievement of their respected goals:

Students - to be equipped with the necessary language-specific comprehension skills which will help them to be successful in the global labor market with their chosen professional careers.
Clients - to have a growing list of trusted and satisfied clientele with our assurance of providing them a ready-pool of competent language-specific speakers to serve their needs and interests.
Employees - to provide our employees with a dynamic working environment where they can find personal growth, find and build good relationships at the workplace, raise their professional skills to a higher level with their deserved benefits and compensation package.
Business - to operate as a sustainable and socially responsible enterprise by providing our clients with high quality services with long-term strategic mindset and by ethically promoting professionals in various fields to the global labor market.

The Tandem Team

Enrico is an avid advocate of language learning who, as the Executive Director, oversees the over-all management and strategic corporate and personnel development of Tandem Language and Training Center. He discovered his teaching vocation as a lecturer and research associate at various academic institutions in Germany including Bremen University of Applied Sciences, Jacobs University, and Hamburg School of Business Administration. His professional career for over a decade covered the areas of business development, international marketing, personnel management, and import-export trade mainly within the industries of shipping operations, maritime services, personnel recruitment, and business consulting in Europe and in Southeast Asia.

He holds a baccalaureate degree in European Studies-International Business with minor degrees in German and in Finance at the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. He pursued a European Master of Arts Program in Communications, Media, and Culture Studies at Roskilde University in Denmark and at the Universität Kassel in Germany as a scholarship recipient of the European Commission’s Erasmus Mundus Program. He further accomplished the executive program of Master in Business Administration (MBA) and Leadership at Hamburg School of Business Administration in Germany. He held the post of lecturer and avademic researcher at Bremen University of Applied Sciences and Jacobs University in Germany, Universidade de Sao Paolo in Brazil, and Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. His passion for languages developed at a very young age when he started learning German. Eventually, he pursued language courses across Europe and South America learning Danish, French, Spanish, and Portuguese which inspired him to collate ideas for best practices in language teaching and learning. He is currently appointed as the pedagogical consultant in German as a Foreign Language for the Philippines by Klett Publications based in Stuttgart, Germany, and is a telc-certified German langauge instructor for healthcare and medical professionals.