Does ESIT teach different variants of its languages?

sindee21 wrote:



Thanks Nicolette, I realize that ESIT does not teach languages. Let me clarify my question. I am an American and the variant of English I speak is American English. Also, My second and third languages are French and Spanish respectively. I was taught the European variant of French, thus I am not familiar with a lot of the vocabulary that is particular to Canadian French speakers, and my style of speaking and writing French is from the European variant. Also, being in the U.S., our courses were focused mainly on the Latin-American variant of Spanish(if such a thing exists)with a lot of emphasis on Mexican Spanish and not European Spanish from Spain.

Now, being that ESIT is in Europe, I would imagine that the great majority of their staff would be European, and therefore, I was thinking, if the person correcting or reviewing my translation was British, would he accept my rendering the French or Spanish text into American English, or would I be taught to translate into a British style using British vocabulary and/or style. Also, I was wondering if I would be presented with texts written in Canadian French or Mexican Spanish, or would all the texts be in the European variants of the languages.

Sorry if I wasn't clear before, and I hope I have clarified things a bit.

sindee21