“Are we going to keep requiring language proficiency for our teams handling international claims?” wondered Nicolas Llorens, head of human resources at Macif, the French insurance company. “I need to keep my employees engaged at work without being overtaken by economic pressure,” he confided. The instant translation capabilities of artificial intelligence has quickly won over businesses. This is all the more true in an increasingly globalized economy, where companies expand into multilingual environments. Now, you simply click an icon or launch an app to write an email in English, decipher a commercial proposal from a Brazilian or Indian company, translate a German tutorial or receive a French summary of a meeting you didn’t fully understand – whether written or spoken.
Nevertheless, demand for language training has not waned. In 2025 in France, one out of every five professional training courses focused on learning or improving a foreign language. Similarly, in 2025, 10% of job postings on the career platform Welcome to the Jungle required English, compared to less than 7% in 2024 and 5.5% in 2023.
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