Learning Welsh boosts fitness trainer's business

[Harold Schiffman]

Forwarded From: edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu


Wales News



Learning Welsh boosts fitness trainer's business



Learning Welsh was a personal challenge which made business sense for
fitness instructor Ryan Condon.



Freelance trainer and semi-professional boxer Ryan learned the
language through a Welsh for Adults course at Cardiff University. The
27-year-old could see the commercial benefits in communicating with
Welsh- speaking clients in their own language and he has since been
reaping the rewards.



Since promoting himself as a bilingual fitness instructor, Ryan says
that his Welsh- speaking clients are more likely to stay with him
because they feel more comfortable communicating in Welsh.



Full story:

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2009/03/12/learning-welsh-boosts-fitness-trainer-s-business-91466-23124254/




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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
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