Welcome to LTC-Circuit's Language Learning WEBsite!


Dear reader,

• If you yourself want to improve your language level then we invite you to take a look at Your, the Learner's, perspective as we describe there how our coaching experience can help you.

• If you are a Leader with wider executive responsibilities in your organisation, then you may be encouraged by our take on language learning in this complex world – as we share our vision with you in The Executive and Leader's perspective.

• If you are in charge of the development of the organisation's human capital and potential, then we are convinced you will be interested by the ideas we develop in The Organisation's and Human Potential Perspective.

When you do so, you will reach a black-on-white page with in its middle a thorough presentation of the relevant topic. On this page it is called A brief presentation.

There are 5 black-on-white pages in total: the 3 aforementioned Perspective pages, this Home & Contact page and a page on Who are we? A history and a story. These black-on-white pages will increasingly be available in all above-mentioned languages.

Below each black-on-white page you will also find links to Further essays and examples, on gold-on-grey pages this time, presenting essays in one language only. You may think of these gold-on-gray pages as a kind of blog, with new contributions being added regularly.

Other links invite you to consult our unique Products and Services.

The frame below explains how you can reach us.

On all pages, both black-on-white and gold-on-grey, you will find left and right columns with

• testimonials from our clients and customers, for instance from:
- Jan De Visch from Connect & Transform, Belgium,
- Chantal Colignon from Record Bank, Belgium,
- Brigitte Legrève from Unisys Belgium,
- Ulrich Penzkofer from Siemens IT Solutions and Services Belgium, and
- Kathleen Wantz-O'Rourke from Siemens France,

• declarations of faith from the coaches who work within our network, for instance from Anne De Kleermaker, Tony Robberechts, Giuliana Costamagna, Ali Khedher, Nadine Jourdan Sanne, Michael Hill, Wolfgang Pressl, Caroline Casillas, Guido Mylle, Doug Swan,

as well as photographs and pictures that we hope will inspire you!

We intend to frequently add new information links and additional language layers to this WEBsite, and of course, dear reader, we will keep you posted.

But, by all means, feel free to explore!

Michel Leclerc
co-founder, partner, managing director

Luc Deneulin
co-founder, partner, managing director

• A testimonial by
Jan De Visch,
Managing Director, Connect & Transform, Belgium:


“Michel neemt je mee in een taalbad dat verder gaat dan woordenschat en grammatica. Hij concentreert zich op waar het in essentie om draait, namelijk samen betekenis creëren en ontdekken. Hij doet dit niet alleen door ‘anders’ mee te denken rond de manier waarop je gericht gespecialiseerde onderwerpen helder naar klanten toe kunt brengen, maar ook door er vanuit zijn zeer rijke en brede achtergrond telkens dimensies aan toe te voegen waardoor je taalimpact vergroot. Voor mij is de taal-reis met Michel tot nu toe een pad van zakelijke en persoonlijke verdieping. Dank je, Michel!”

• A testimonial by
Chantal Colignon,
Language Learning Project Manager, Record Bank, Belgique:


“Qu'une collaboration entre une entreprise et une école de langues existe depuis 3, 4 ou 5 ans, quoi de plus normal, mais depuis plus de 15 ans, quoi de plus surprenant.

C'est pourtant le vécu que j'ai le plaisir de connaître depuis tant d'années avec LTC-Circuit, en tant que responsable des formations linguistiques, en premier lieu, chez RVS Assurances puis aujourd'hui, chez Record Bank, filiale du groupe ING Belgique.

Les raisons? Elles sont multiples: compétences pédagogiques du corps professoral, connaissances du monde de la finance, suivi des formations, facultés d'adaptation, renouveau méthodologique, tarifs compétitifs, mais aussi et surtout, une dimension humaine, hors norme, qui caractérise l'un de ses professeurs, coordinateur et cofondateur de cette école, Luc Deneulin.

Le subtil alliage du meilleur transfert de connaissances possible, de sa disponibilité, de sa patience à toute épreuve, de son empathie et de sa volonté de porter l'autre au-delà de ses limites, forme sans conteste la clé de voûte d'une formation réussie.

Luc Deneulin enseigne sans compter: ni le temps qu'il réserve à ses élèves, ni le temps qu'il consacre à une organisation optimale. Il n'hésite pas non plus à conseiller l'arrêt d'une formation en cours ni le choix d'une méthode plus performante pour un moindre coût.

Merci Luc pour votre contribution aux compétences des collaborateurs de Record et à l'image de marque de notre entité. Grâce à vous et à vos professeurs, la formation linguistique prend tout son sens au sein de notre banque.”

• A testimonial by
Brigitte Legrève,
Human Resources Business Consultant, Unisys Belgium:


“Cela fait de nombreuses années que nous coopérons avec LTC-Circuit.
 
Au-delà de l’accompagnement de nos collaborateurs dans l’apprentissage ou l’approfondissement d’une autre langue vers un objectif et dans un contexte professionnel précis,  Michel a toujours agi comme un "coche" – précurseur du terme "coaching" – : il a apporté sa compétence de linguiste multilingue et multiculturel, non pas uniquement pour enseigner, conseiller mais également pour orienter et amener ses "étudiants"  à changer de façon évolutive.
 
Cette démarche s’est traduite par des parcours "à la carte", personnalisés, par une flexibilité à la mesure des besoins, des disponibilités et des centres d’intérêts particuliers de ses élèves.
 
En cela, depuis le début, Michel a développé une forme de pédagogie nouvelle au travers de laquelle, le temps d’un parcours vers un objectif défini, il a guidé son étudiant dans ses étapes, son rythme d’apprentissage – tout ceci dans une relation de parité indispensable pour amener celui-ci vers plus d’autonomie.”

How you can reach us

• We are located at:

LTC-Circuit bvba-sprl
Rue Willemsstraat 14
B-1210 Brussels Belgium

• You can send us your comments and requests for further information by e-mailing us at this e-address

• We will answer your calls at number +32 475 267 341.

A brief presentation


LTC-Circuit is a Brussels-based network company of language learning coaches that has started its 26th year of existence now.

We have built our centuries of combined expertise around the firm belief that the real engine of a "language school" is the quality and integrity of its "teachers". Hence we continue to learn from each other.

While doing so, we have integrated various insights in management development, such as customer-oriented communication, situational management, total quality and, lately, capability management.

That has made us by now much more than "teachers working for a school". We have continuously sharpened our focus on our essential contribution, and discovered that it lies in our being coaches of your language learning and development process.

It is our mission to make you as autonomous as possible as early as possible. Hence we encourage you to co-create all practising opportunities you can get – and we stimulate you to teach yourself as much as your busy schedule allows you to.

As coaches then, we help you weaving all these threads together – we will Listen to you while you want us to correct your growing practice, we will Tutor your study when you need our assistance, and we will Counsel you on the ways of "getting there" and on all things cultural related to the language you learn.

In the course of the years, we have greatly innovated: creating new needs analysis and level assessment tools, producing an Intermediate Dutch course, developing initiation courses to "exotic" languages, researching the so-called "intercomprehension" and "multilingualism" paths to language learning and Trans-Cultural Excellence.

And all that supports the professionalism with which we can cater to highly demanding but diverse corporate and public organisation environments.

Yet our true quality and service resides with the creativity, discipline, flexibility, intelligence, maturity, cultural ambassadorship, human insight and care – of the highly experienced women and men who are the coaches of our network.

Unique products and services


• a proprietary intake interview relating multilingualism and motivator sets,

• streamlined oral testing protocols and validated knowledge level tests,

• needs analyses correlating professional performance needs and gradable language skills,

• a grading scale based on measurable linguistic skills complexity (correlated with the European Common Reference Framework),

• our Trans-Cultural Excellence Rating instrument for assessing multilingualism,

• a programme design orchestrating all key parameters of the learning process,

• tools for organisation-wide language skills and talent management, adequately addressing level and learning style variances within a learner's population,

• language coaching process steering tools relating job complexity, multilingualism and motivator sets,

• WOORD*VORM (5 books, 10 audio CDs): a no-frills, highly focused, learning-efficient primer for Dutch, that targets the first 2,000 words as well as basic-to-intermediate-level grammar,

• comprehensive programme assessment tools involving all key parameters of a 360° analysis

• …

Essays and examples


• A Mission Essay

• The schoolkid kit

• “All this is marketing”: Coaching is co-creation or The proof of the pudding is in the eating

• Assessing the Learner's needs and skills

• How we plot the Learner's Language learning Adventure

• Plan thoroughly and implement flexibly

• Plurilingualism is key but also the key

• 7 Managers are attending a meeting or Plurilingualism in meetings works

• Assignment: Auditing an Audit Department

• Assignment: Company-wide progress in Spartan circumstances

• Assignment: Company-wide coaching of High Performers

• Assignment: Customer-oriented writing in an insurance department

• Crossing the ultimate frontier: Towards Trans-Cultural Excellence

• Rubbing black and yellow noses

Sites that inspire us


• the site of Terralingua on biological, cultural and linguistic diversity

• the site of EuroCom on the development of intercomprehension among kindred languages

• the site of the Brussels-based non-political, non-religious but cultural Centre Culturel Arabe

• Jan De Visch's site, Connect & Transform, on corporate and personal growth towards complexity