About us

Why you enjoy working with us

  • Over 20 years
  • Over 115 languages
  • Branches in 4 cities
  • 563 colleagues
  • 135 satisfied corporate clients
  • 50 000 courses currently taking place

After more than 21 years of experience, you will find over 115 languages in our portfolio. We teach you to actively use foreign languages, and we also translate and interpret for you. We arrange language courses and other services for companies, groups and individuals. We provide you with complex language services. And this allows us to open the door to the world for you.

We provide our services throughout the Czech republic. You can find our branches in Ostrava, Prague, Brno and Plzeň. We are capable of coordinating language courses for corporate clientele in 40 towns at once, however, we also provide professional language services to small family companies.

We are involved in forming the language market. We are active members of the Association of Language Schools – ALS and we adhere to the principles anchored in the common ALS Code of Quality. We adhere to the principles of a professional attitude, qualified lecturers, methodological standards, transparent references and teaching in compliance with the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) for Languages.

We organise language courses certified by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports.

We are a member of the British Chamber and German Chamber. We have been active members of the Czech-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry since 2015. We also became a member of the British Chamber of Commerce in the Czech Republic in May 2019.

We are a member of the Czech Chamber of Economics and the Patriots of the Moravian Silesian Region.

We are a Test Centre for the ETS Company, for which we carry out testing for the internationally acknowledged TOEIC examination.

Our values

  • Trust
  • Professionalism
  • Openness
  • Respect
  • Reliability

Our mission

  •  We will open the door to the world for you

Our vision

  • We will open the door to the world for those of you who need languages. We teach, interpret, translate and offer a new perspective, in this country and abroad.

 

Lucie Vlková a Petr Pasek

Founders Slůně - svět jazyků

History

1998
Slůně was born in Ostrava
1999
we are opening our first classrooms in Ostrava
2000
we hire our first employee
2001
we are launching the first online Database and we are the first language school outside Prague with on-line Database
2002
we are opening a branch in Brno
2004
we obtain accreditation and offer full-time post-secondary studies
2005
we are opening a branch in Prague
2006
we are opening a branch in Pilsen
2007
we are acquiring a significant client - Plzeňský Prazdroj
2008
we grow by 30% in turnover
2008
we become the Company of the Year in out region
2009
we translate more than 100 languages
2010
we take over the Alka Language Specialists language school
2010
we are falling by 30% in turnover (within the global economic crisis)
2012
we become a testing center of ETS and we get authorization to organize a certified language exam TOEIC, WiDaF and TFI at all branches
2013
we successfully complete a supervisory audit according to the AJŠA (Association of language schools) Standard performed by the certification company Bureau Veritas
2013
we become members of the Czech-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry
2014
we are starting to use CAT tools for translations
2014
we offer language courses abroad
2015
we have the first trainee within the ERASMUS + program
2016
we are introducing e-learning and blended learning
2018
we celebrate 20 years
2019
we are starting teaching Soft Skills in English
2020
we are starting teaching Soft Skills in Czech