Founded by Louise Charest in 1985, École de langues de l’Estrie has been providing language training for the past 16 years. A brief history of the school will demonstrate the wide range of experience École de langues de l’Estrie has with providing language-training services in French and in English.   Louise Charest, the company’s president, graduated from the University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, in English and French Comparative literature. Having grown up in a bilingual family, she was able to better understand the unique characteristics of both of these cultures.   At first, the school catered exclusively to the private sector. Within 2 years, over 50 companies such as SEARS, IBM Canada, Culinar and General Motors were using Ms. Charest’s services to train their employees to be proficient in both official languages. In 1987 the school was approach by Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC) to train employees with the goal of obtaining government levels of linguistic competency. At that time we began to administer training to 800 students in 80 different locations throughout the province of Quebec and Ontario.   Administration of this work took place at the newly opened offices in Montreal. In addition to the work with HRDC and the private sector, École de langues de l’Estrie increased its public sector clientele to encompass 15 government departments, as well as foreign languages other than French and English. Now, as one of Canada’s leaders in private language training, École de langues de l’Estrie has continually been awarded language-training contracts from numerous federal government departments and private sector companies.   We offer part-time and full-time language training according to the needs and learning styles of the students. Approximately 600 students from a variety of departments have been using our services for French and English language training in Ottawa, Sherbrook and Montreal.   We come highly recommended by the Canadian Government.