{"id":4624,"date":"2021-10-16T20:49:41","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T18:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lingva.com\/?p=4624"},"modified":"2021-10-16T20:50:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T18:50:20","slug":"lingva-realizuje-yals-us-grant-projekat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lingva.com\/en\/lingva-realizuje-yals-us-grant-projekat\/","title":{"rendered":"Lingva implementing YALS-US Grant project"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOn 4th October, Lingva school held the first lesson of an English language course in Valjevo, as part of a project of YALS Association of English Language Schools under the sponsorship of the America Embassy in Belgrade.<\/p>\n

The project is titled Teaching English to Serbian civil servants working at local government units with the focus on practical skills needed to communicate more fluently with EU counterparts. It will be\u00a0 implemented from September 2021 to June 2022 and it includes 130 participants from 11 cities and towns selected from all over Serbia. The implementing party in Valjevo is the Lingva Centre for Foreign Languages. The project is managed by a YALS project team consisting of:<\/p>\n

Sofija LJiljak-Vukajlovi\u0107, Project Manager
\nMirjana Grandov Laci\u0107, Project Coordinator
\nDanijela Karafilipovi\u0107, Project Accountant<\/p>\n

For this purpose, the YALS project team has compiled a special handbook called Skills Booster, which covers the functional language and skills relevant to the situations in the work of civil servants, such as creating a CV, active participation in meetings, writing formal emails\/letters, creating and giving presentations and use of helpful digital tools, within the topics related to communal, urbanistic and economic activities, as well as the cultures of European Partners, USA and Serbia.<\/p>\n