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Frenchman by the name of Nicholas Joly, only soon to discover that Joly barely spoke English. However, due to illness, Berlitz asked Joly to take over his classes, and teach by pointing at objects, repeating the French word for them, and acting out verbs. Upon his return,
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Germany in 1852, the son of a family of teachers and mathematicians. He emigrated to the United States in 1870, settling in Westerly, Rhode Island. In 1877 Berlitz moved to Providence, Rhode Island where he was an instructor of languages at the Bryant and Stratton National Business
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By the time of the start of World War I in 1914, there were over 200 Berlitz
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In 1966, Berlitz became a subsidiary of Macmillan, Inc. Robert Strumpen-Darrie continued as president until his retirement in 1970, Raphael Alberola became CEO for about 4 or 5 years and then Elio Boccitto led the company through most of the 1980s. In November 1988,
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The total number of language lessons given during the year 2011 was 6,506 thousand. The number of language centers was 563 as of December 31, 2011. As of early 2013, 75% of its revenue was from English language lessons.
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Berlitz realized that this improvised, immersive approach of teaching a foreign language by using that language itself without translations turned out far more effective than traditional techniques of that time.
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and focuses on using language as a tool for communication. The direct method, as opposed to the traditional
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