My name is Jerome, I am 32 yo. I am French, and I live in Bordeaux at the moment.
I was an accounting and commercial computing trainer for 6 years, and I start a new path quite soon : I settle in London :) I will study English and try ICB certification with Kaplan, more to learn English Accounting language than accountancy itself (I have a sort of French Master degree in accounting : DECF)...
I am going to begin the course in France, and I will keep up in London by the end of october :)
Hope to share information in this forum, and if someone need some french speaking bookkeeper, I am here !
Cheers
Jérôme
(PS: sorry for my poor English, I know it needs some improvement )
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welcome to the forum and don't worry, your English is already much better than the French of many of we Brits (myself included).
I think that you've got the right approach, total immersion by settling in a country is definitely the way to go to really pick up the language.
Have you already got a position lined up?
Good luck with that and looking forward to talking to you on the site.
All the best,
Shaun.
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Shaun
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At the moment, I have no position lined up : my English is not good enough (or more exactly: I am not confident enough with it).
Actually, I read it quite well, I write it rather well (with some grammar errors :-/ ), I can speak it with an awful French accent, but the most difficult, for me, is to understand it when it is spoken.
So I am going to begin with some english lessons in order to improve prononciation and understanding. 4 weeks in November.
In accountancy, that would be rather easy : I have just to acquire some vocabulary, and that would do the trick. I have just began some self-study (with Osbourn books) : it is not too difficult :)
By the way, English accountancy seems to be quite easier than the French one. In France, it is really tax oriented, and there are a lot of tax laws to translate in figures... In the UK, it is most business oriented...
These differences are quite interesting for me, and I hope to be able to make my new path a success!
Some work, a lot of bravour, and a bit of luck... And everything should be ok ;)
Regards
Jérôme
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