Your training to be a business translator

With our training you acquire all the language skills and abilities you need for the business translator examination at the Chamber of Industry and Commerce. The training concludes with the inlingua diploma or the certificate from the Cologne, Bonn or Düsseldorf Chamber of Industry and Commerce.

Written and spoken foreign language skills

• Revising and improving grammar
• Mastering written and spoken colloquial language
• Interpreting simple negotiations
• Dictating into the foreign languages from the business sections of foreign press and on current affairs
• Making telephone calls in the foreign language
• Newspaper articles and business essays
• Independently writing press releases and articles
• Translating business and politics texts

Specialist and regional studies

• Specialized knowledge and terminology (economy), especially bank
• and stock market, foreign trade and transportation and customs
• Economic geography, regional studies, culture and politics

IT and text processing

The full-time training takes 24 months with 10 to 20 sessions a week.

• The training may be shortened to 1 academic year (180 face-to-face lessons) with the Abitur qualification and appropriate prior knowledge in both foreign languages, which is evidenced by a test.
• Full-time training with 10 to 20 sessions per week with core session times from 8am to 2pm (Monday to Friday)
• It is possible to start the course in April and October. The state of NRW’s holiday regulations apply.
• At the end of the first academic year, an annual report is issued that entitles you to continue to the second year

The part-time training takes 24 months with 4 sessions a week (face-to-face) and 10 sessions of independent learning.  

• The training may be shortened to 1 academic year (180 face-to-face lessons) with the Abitur qualification and appropriate prior knowledge in both foreign languages, which is evidenced by a test.
• The part-time training has 4 sessions per week with core session times twice a week from 7:10pm to 9pm or on Saturdays from 9:10am to 1pm.
• It is possible to start the course in January, April and October. The state of NRW’s holiday regulation applies.
• At the end of the first academic year, an annual report is issued that entitles you to continue to the second year.

• English
• Spanish
• French
• Italian
• Russian

• Evidence of a secondary school leaving certificate (Mittlere Reife from a Realschule, Wirtschaftsschule or Gymnasium, the M path from a Hauptschule, QuaBi)
• Year 12 (FOS or Gymnasium) leaving certificate
• With the Abitur qualification, it is possible to shorten the training time to just 1 year
• English skills equivalent to Mittlere Reife level (placement test)
• No prior knowledge required for the second foreign language, French or Spanish.
• For applicants whose native language is not German, additional evidence of very good German skills

Our experienced international team of trainers provides competent, practical and professional training. The language lessons are only taught by native speakers. As a result, our students learn the correct pronunciation.