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24 Aug

Coffee break with Virginia Ciobanu

These days we met for a coffee with Virginia Ciobanu, the founder of Virginia’s Books language school. 

Virginia’s Books offers tailor-made training programs, linguistic competence assessment, workshops and linguistic counselling in support of conversational abilities development.

Virginia Ciobanu graduated the Foreign Languages and Literatures Faculty at the University of Bucharest in 1998 and has a 20-year background in teaching and language assessment in private and state educational systems. 

Discover her in the following interview.

ALISIA ENCO: In every success story, you will find someone who has made a courageous decision. Why Virginia s books and what does it mean for you? 

Once upon a time there came up to me a daring dream. And as soon as it entered my heart it did change my life. It was about creating a language school.

I had worked as a teacher, as a language assessor, as a translator and interpreter until then and I had reached a powerful professional background level in the language learning and assessment fields. Also, I had reached several conclusions regarding the best practices within these areas of expertise.

I was about to help people in that same way as I had done it before, in a way that fitted me professionally and personally; only this time I was about to create for them  those precisely targeted learning solutions so that they could save a lot of their time and reach their goals within the required span of time.

This is crucial for the busy people of today’s world. We don’t have time and we have audacious goals. Virginia’s Books manages exactly these aspects and suggests a solution: the customized foreign language program combing the very personal experience of the language in one-to-one sessions together with a personal trainer and the group work within selectively created workshops. Thus, the combination offers the complete range of experiences that produce a confident language speaker.

AE: What is your biggest dream? 

To turn Virginia’s Books into an international business.

The purpose of Virginia’s Books is to help people become better at what they do, to support their personal and professional evolution and to contribute to their economical and social well-being.

Learning a language is getting higher acces to information, hence to better positioning within a hierarchy, be it within one’s personal or professional network.

I would like to help people locally and also I would be very proud to succeed in exporting this experience abroad relying on the same method. But this will come later because it represents another stage of the business.

AE: Elegance is a state of mind, how do you define elegance? 

Elegance is when everything comes in harmony, when all senses feel confortable and they do not ask for any change in the appearance because everything is already as it should be, even the contrasts. Elegance is confidence. Elegance is distinction and it is a sign of wisdom. Elegance is nobility and it reclaims peace and education. It can mould the environment so profoundly that it leaves behind an overwhelming wish for its immediate return.  

AE: Business creativity is all about finding fresh and innovative solutions to problems and identifying opportunities to improve the way that we do things. How creative are you? 

I would speak about two aspects pertaining to creativity and relating to Virginia’s Books. One of them refers to the teaching method and the other focuses on a blog where I write stories and short histories.

Earlier, I was telling you about a combined method of training. Within the training program, a prescription will be provided especially for each participant. This prescription will combine individual training sessions with a personal trainer, on the one hand and participation in interactive workshops  within group discussions, on the other hand. During these discussions customized scenarios will be created for each situation and profile and tailored together with the participant.

As for the blog, you will find stories in English and French written by me for a language learning purpose. They usually end in a call-to-action under the form of a language exercise for the readers interested in learning one of these two languages. And these exercises are linked to the workshops you can find in our Agenda on Virginia’s Books site so that the language experience should be as complete as possible. 

AE: What are the most important details when choosing to buy a piece of clothing?  

It should be in agreement to what I stand for, to what I represent at a particular moment, to the role I play in a certain context. It should fit me and give me a sense of confort. It should make me feel like I already am a winner. It should give me confidence and be a strong ally in every urban battle that I am to carry every day of the week. It is that when you feel comfortable in your clothes you feel good about yourself, then you spread rays of your happy aura all around and people tend to show more respect and confidence to you. They are more likely to let themselves led by your ideas.

AE: You choose to wear our shirts. What made you chose them?

Whenever I wear ALISIA ENCO shirts I feel I am at the right place and at the right moment. It gives me the feeling of certainty and trust and I know I will succeed by having this classy ally by my side.  I chose ALISIA ENCO because it fits me as a brand. Sobriety, common sense and creativity are three aspects that should govern the professional life of those who wish to have a healthy and socially responsible business. And I have found these three attributes in your brand, Alice. And I think this is really valuable in a woman’s professional life.

 AE: What is your favorite ALISIA ENCO shirt? 

I like very much all my ALISIA ENCO shirts. I treasure each them for something particular that has to do with the colour and the fabric. Each shirt is a statement. Each shirt is a story about a public appearance. However, if I have to choose one of them, I will choose two!:) I am thinking of the first one I ever wore, that is the pink CREATIVE BUSINESS shirt. Elegant and versatile by its chromatics, it does become magical when I wear it. And I am also viewing here my CLOVER shirt which always brings over luck and a joyful atmosphere.

In the end, there is not one I would not wear with great pleasure.

In this interview Virginia is wearing Blue shirt Flowers for HER (limited edition) and White shirt Clover. Discover them here: www.alisiaenco.com

 Discover Virginia and her work here: www.cartilevirginiei.ro

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