Brazilian-born expat Luis Barbosa moved to the Netherlands about eight years ago to study physical chemistry at the Technical University of Eindhoven. He didn't really learn a great deal of Dutch, as his fellow students were much too eager to speak English with him. Luis did study a Dutch course at his university though but it didn't give him a lot of confidence. In his current job, Luis is senior project manager at Mallinckrodt, a business unit of Tyco Healthcare providing contrast media and delivery systems, radiopharmaceuticals, and urology imaging systems for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and other diseases. Learning Dutch was very important to Luis. "Although I still don't speak the language fluently yet, I'm now able to understand as much as 80% of what is said during meetings and say the basic things," explains Luis. "From the very beginning of the course, we've tried to speak only Dutch. This way you're being trained to think unconsciously in the new language, which makes you less liable to translate word for word from your mother tongue." Luis finds the greatest differences between the Dutch course he took at university and PCI's 'Dutch for Foreigners' course, are in the level of professionalism and amount of personal attention he got.