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ABOUT SARAH CARROLL

Fuelled by her passion for languages and culture, Sarah Carroll has founded three businesses in the UK:

The first is Grow Global (www.growglobal.biz), a business consultancy supporting companies looking to increase their revenue and decrease their costs by becoming more international, whether through importing, exporting or serving multicultural customers at home. As part of this work, Sarah is a registered Export Communications Consultant working with the British Chambers of Commerce and the UK Government's Trade and Investment to deliver Export Communications Reviews. A review helps small and medium-sized companies communicate as effectively as possible with their customers, agents and distributors when exporting.

The second is Language Advantage (www.languageadvantage.com), an international website which recommends the best and most innovative ways for adults and children to learn a new language for holiday, study, travel or business.

Thirdly and finally, Sarah is a language trainer and author of language courses. She has worked with Hodder Education in London to design the Teach Yourself Conversation audio-only series and is now author of the Teach Yourself Business language and culture series. Teach Yourself Business French and Teach Yourself Business Spanish were published in October 2007, closely followed by Teach Yourself Business Japanese in May 2008. Teach Yourself Business Mandarin will be published at the end of 2008. She is teaching French and Spanish language and culture to primary-aged children to give them a head start in this global village.

Sarah has lived and worked internationally. She started off by getting a BSc (Hons) in European Management Science (French) and an MPhil in IT from Swansea University in Wales. On the first year of the European Erasmus scheme, Sarah spent a year studying at Strasbourg University in France. She is now a qualified French teacher.

She then spent 10 years with global management consultancies Accenture and Deloitte Consulting, where she worked with and managed multicultural and multilingual teams. She found out by harsh experience that it is really worth paying attention to 'all this language and cultural stuff' if you want to make things happen.

Sarah speaks fluent French and some German and Spanish. She is improving her Spanish in recognition of it being one of the next world business languages.

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