Manufacturing · Listed corporate
Eighteen managers, six months, and a French team that finally talked to its Lyon counterpart.
After acquiring a French OEM partner, TVS needed eighteen senior managers conversational in French within two quarters — without taking them off the floor.
01 · Outcomes
2025 cohort
- 100%
- Cleared DELF A2
- 18
- Managers trained on-site
- 6 mo
- Programme duration
- 0
- Managers pulled off the floor
02 · How we did it
Approach
- 01
On-site classroom on the TVS Hosur campus, two evenings a week
- 02
Custom curriculum built around plant operations vocabulary
- 03
Live video calls with the Lyon team integrated into the syllabus from month two
- 04
DELF A2 simulation as exit assessment
03 · Curriculum modules
As delivered
- 03.01
A1 — Débutant intensive (month 1)
- 03.02
A2 — Operations vocabulary inserts (months 2–4)
- 03.03
Lyon-team live calls (months 2 onward)
- 03.04
DELF A2 mock + sit (month 6)
04 · In their words
On the record
TVS Motor Company
Aravind Srinivasan
VP, International Operations
Our Triqora instructor showed up at the plant every Tuesday and Thursday for six months. The Lyon team noticed the difference within two months. By month four our weekly calls had switched languages.
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