New companies in the city
In the first half of 2025, through Invest in Valencia, the city gained 18 foreign companies and 300 jobs in technology, finance and logistics, and six more companies expanded their offices. Source: Ayuntamiento de València.
FUNDAE · training paid from the company credit
Spanish for your team
Relocated staff to Spain? We get the team speaking Spanish at work, at the bank and through paperwork, from everyday phrases to dealing with a contractor. The teacher comes to your office or teaches online, on a schedule built around your shifts.
Up to 100% fundable through FUNDAE.
Who this is for
Valencia takes in international teams faster than they can learn the language. A company opens an office, people arrive with their families, and a month later it turns out English is enough at work but not at the bank, at the doctor, at the children’s school or with a local contractor.
A tech region
The Valencia region is home to 1,103 tech companies with 12,152 jobs across startups, scaleups and innovative SMEs. Source: El Referente, 2026.
International hubs
The Terminal Hub in the Marina houses 500 professionals from 35 countries, a third of them foreign nationals, 42% working in IT and development. Source: Empresa Exterior, May 2026.
We work with three kinds of team: relocated employees who need Spanish to live and work in Spain; local companies with foreign specialists who need a common language with their colleagues; and employees’ families, for whom the language decides whether the person stays in the country. Each case gets its own programme and class format.
Why YLC
A language school in Valencia. We train adults and company teams in Spanish: from the first phrases to working confidently in the language, including work email, paperwork and the vocabulary of your industry. The programme follows the CEFR scale and is tuned to each department rather than written from scratch for every company.
Seven years in Valencia
The school opened in 2019 and has run without a break since. Our programmes have taken 2000+ adult students through them, and the Google rating holds at 4.9 stars based on reviews from real graduates.
We teach working adults
Our students hold jobs: engineers, doctors, team leads, business owners. The programme, the pace and the homework are built for people with 2 to 4 hours a week to study, not a whole free day.
Native and bilingual staff
Our teachers are native speakers and bilinguals with experience inside international companies. We measure the level before the start on the CEFR scale, A0 to B2, and carry on from exactly that point.
Spanish and English
One school covers both languages: two programmes, a single contract. If part of the team needs Spanish to live in Spain while another needs English for clients, there is no hunting for a second provider.
FUNDAE-accredited centre
The school is accredited to deliver subsidised training and acts as the organising entity under a mandate agreement: we file the application and keep the records. The company credit covers up to 100% of the hours when classes run during working time; we work out the figure for your headcount before signing.
You can see what happens
We measure every employee at the start, then send an attendance and progress report every 8 weeks. HR sees who turns up and who is falling behind, without having to ask for it or chase anyone.
We handle everything with FUNDAE as the organising entity: we sign the mandate agreement, check the company credit, register the group two days before the start, keep the attendance record, prepare the closing documents and answer the fund’s queries. From you, the list of employees and a signature from management. HR never has to learn the rules or watch the deadlines.
What the programme covers
The course has to bring an employee to the level where they handle work and everyday matters on their own. So the programme covers four areas of life in Spain; the office is only one of them.
Work
Meetings, email, calls, negotiating with contractors and clients, presenting a project. The vocabulary of your industry is in the course from the first weeks: we have adapted programmes for IT, finance, legal and sales.
Paperwork and public offices
NIE, town-hall registration (empadronamiento), Social Security, Cl@ve, the tax office, residence permit renewal. The employee handles these counters alone, without an interpreter and without pulling HR away during working hours.
Everyday life
Renting a flat, the bank, doctor and insurance, a school for the children, utilities. Level A2 gives independence in daily life and B1 lets a person run work meetings and correspondence. Every level comes with a list of what the person can actually do.
Family
Spouses and partners of employees study in our groups at the school or online. Separate groups for families with a flexible timetable: the family’s language is what most often decides whether an employee stays in Spain after the first year.
We take levels from A0 to B2 on the CEFR scale: before the start every employee takes a written test and an oral interview, and we split the intake into single-level groups on that basis. On completing a level we issue a YLC certificate, and for anyone who needs an official qualification we prepare them for the DELE and SIELE exams.
Common challenges in corporate training
Over seven years we have built corporate groups for dozens of teams and keep seeing the same six problems. Here is what breaks training most often and how we close each of those situations down.
Classes over the lunch break
A lesson in the break eats the only rest of the day: after a month the group arrives drained, after two it stops coming. We schedule before work, after it or inside the shift, but never in the break.
Content that misses the job
A purely technical course suits two people in every ten; the rest need meetings, email and phone calls. So we build the groups around the work profile, and for the key areas of a business (IT, finance, legal, sales) we have adapted courses ready.
Mixed levels in one room
When a beginner and an advanced speaker share a lesson, both are bored. Before the start we test everyone and split the intake by level, A0 to B2, so the pace matches what the group can really follow.
People miss classes for work
Trips and crunch weeks break the routine: someone falls behind and quits. We hand over the material from the missed lesson and a place in another group at their level, or the option to join the class online.
No sign of any result
With nothing measured, training looks like a pure cost line. We record the starting level, track attendance and send a report every 8 weeks on each employee’s progress, with figures and a teacher comment.
The course never finishes
Half of all corporate programmes fade out by the third month. We hold the group with a schedule that does not fight the working day, 60-minute lessons and a teacher people get used to over the course.
None of these six situations is a reason to call off the training — we have met every one of them and know where to adjust. Usually it takes moving the class an hour earlier, rebuilding the groups by level and agreeing what happens during business trips. We settle that at the first meeting, before signing.
Why companies stay with us
Contracts get renewed not because of a discount but because training stops being a headache: people show up, reports arrive on their own and the FUNDAE paperwork is ready on time. Eight reasons clients name themselves.
The teacher comes to you
Classes run at your office, in a meeting room or any free space. The team loses not one minute commuting and never drops out of the working day: the lesson ends and everyone is back at their tasks.
Small groups by level
We do not push everyone into one stream. We split by level and work profile, up to 10 people offline and 5 online, so each person speaks out loud in every session instead of listening for a whole hour.
A schedule around your shift
Before work, after it or inside the day, whatever suits operations. 60-minute lessons, 2 to 8 hours a week. If the company calendar shifts, we move the classes around rather than your own people.
Training funded by FUNDAE
We handle it all as the organising entity: application, group registration, records, documents. Up to 100% of the hours from the company credit when classes run during working hours. Exactly how much your credit returns, we calculate from the headcount before the start.
Reporting built for HR
Every 8 weeks we send a summary: who attends, what progress has been made and where support is needed. HR sees the return on budget in figures, not in a teacher’s general impressions of the group.
Missed classes are not lost
A trip or a crunch week is no reason to lose what has been paid for. The employee gets the material and can join any group at their own level or dial into the class online from anywhere with internet.
Pause without losing anything
Over summer, through holiday season or in a busy stretch the course can be paused and picked up later. Paid hours never expire: the group reassembles unchanged and carries on from exactly the same point.
One manager to talk to
The company gets one person who answers for everything: scheduling, teacher cover, documents, FUNDAE questions. A reply within 1 business day — no writing to different people and explaining it all again.
Everything above is included and carries no extra charge: the teacher travelling to you, the placement test, the study materials, the reports for HR, catching up a missed class and pausing the course. Only the number of groups and weekly hours is counted separately — that is what the quote is built from after a short call.
What we adapt to you
We have no standard corporate course: we assemble one for each company. Four parameters you set yourself, and we shape the programme and the class calendar around them.
Schedule
You pick the day, time and frequency: 2 to 8 hours a week, in 60-minute lessons.
Group make-up
General, commercial or technical profile, with adapted courses for IT, finance, legal and sales. 3 to 10 people offline, up to 5 online.
Location
Your office, our school by the City of Arts, or online from anywhere.
Reporting
Every 8 weeks: attendance and progress per employee, for HR and management.
These four parameters can be changed mid-course, not only at the start. The company grows, people switch shifts, someone moves faster than the rest — we rebuild the schedule and the groups without terminating the contract. A message to your manager is enough, and the new setup applies from the following week.
What it costs and what FUNDAE gives back
We quote after a short conversation about your needs: the price depends on the number of groups, weekly hours and format. How much the state gives back, on the other hand, follows FUNDAE rules, and they are worth knowing before you talk to the finance director.
The company credit
Every company paying social contributions has an annual training credit. Its size depends on headcount: from €420 for companies of up to 5 people to 50% of contributions paid for companies of 250 or more. Unused credit expires on 31 December; companies under 50 people can carry the balance over if they declare it before 30 June.
The hourly cap
FUNDAE does not refund any price, only up to a limit per participant: €9 an hour at A1–A2 and €13 an hour from B1 and for professional language. Live video classes count as classroom training and follow the same limits.
The company’s share
From 6 employees the law requires private co-funding: 5% for companies of 6 to 9 people, 10% for 10 to 49, 20% for 50 to 249 and 40% from 250. It is covered by salary for the class hours during working time, so for most companies there is no extra cash outlay.
A worked example
A group of 5, 2 hours a week, 12 weeks: 24 hours. Up to €1,080 refunded at A1–A2 and up to €1,560 from B1. The fund’s condition: the employee attends at least 75% of the classes. How much of our price stays with the company, we calculate for your headcount and send within 1 business day.
We do not promise “free” to companies the fund will not refund that much: first we look at the credit and the headcount, then we build the schedule to fit inside the limits. Sources: fundae.es, Ley 30/2015, Orden TMS/368/2019.
We will price it for your team
Tell us the headcount and the format you need — we will come back with a quote and schedule options within 1 business day.
The HR report: what it looks like
Every 8 weeks HR receives a report on each employee: attendance, level, what was covered and what to do next. For FUNDAE we prepare the records in the format approved by the state.
Attendance
Percentage of classes attended per person and per group. The fund’s threshold is 75% and we flag it early: if an employee is getting close, HR knows before the course ends, not after.
Level
Starting level from the test and current level at the end of the block. CEFR scale from A0 to B2, the same for every group, so progress can be compared across departments and offices.
What was covered
Topics of the block and the real situations the group practised: a call to a contractor, a letter to a public office, a visit to the bank. Concrete skills, not unit numbers from a textbook.
Recommendations
The teacher’s comment: who needs extra support, who should move up a group, where the class time should change. HR sees what to adjust, without separate requests or reminders.
The FUNDAE documents come as a separate pack: attendance sheets, the course programme, participants’ certificates within two months of the end, and instructions for accounting on the deduction from social security payments. All of it is kept for four years, as the fund requires, and produced at inspection.
Why it pays for the business
Language for a relocated team looks like a cost line until you count what not having it costs. These figures come in handy when the training budget has to be defended in front of the director.
The price of a failed relocation
The KPMG, Ipsos and International SOS study of 255 companies puts the failure of one international assignment at 850,000 to 1.25 million dollars, counting salary, the move, housing, schooling and replacing the employee.
How many moves fail
By industry estimates, up to 40% of international assignments end early, and the main cause is not the job but a family that never settled: without the language there are no friends, no doctor, no school. Source: CapRelo.
Keeping people
In the CR Languages round-up, 96% of companies say language training helps them retain employees, and 58% of employees say they are more likely to stay with a company that invests in it.
Turnover
An industry return-on-investment report estimates that language programmes cut turnover by up to 25% in multilingual teams. Source: CR Languages.
A Spanish course costs less than replacing one employee: a group of five for six months of classes comes to less than re-hiring and relocating a single specialist. We price it for your team and send the quote with the FUNDAE refund included.
Companies that trust YLC
We work with international and local companies across sectors — technology, energy, sport, logistics — always shaping the programme around what the team actually needs, rather than handing everyone the same course.
RingCentral
Cloud communications for business. International distributed team.
BrainRocket
Technology and product development. Offices across several European countries.
Iberdrola
Energy: one of the largest operators in Spain and worldwide.
Valencia Basket
Valencia’s professional basketball club, competing in European tournaments.
For every one of these teams we built the programme from scratch: some needed English for calls with head office, others Spanish for dealing with local contractors and paperwork. We have no general course handed to everyone — we have formats from which a solution is assembled for each particular company.
FUNDAE: training paid from the company credit.
Every company paying social security contributions has an annual credit for training its staff. We act as the organising entity under a mandate agreement and handle everything with FUNDAE ourselves.
- We check the company credit and calculate the refund before signing
- We register the group with FUNDAE two days before the start and, where there is a works council, inform it 15 working days ahead
- We keep the record of hours and attendance: the fund refunds employees who attend at least 75% of the classes
- We prepare the closing documents and the instructions for accounting on the deduction from social security payments
- For companies with a Spanish legal entity; classes at your office, at the school or by live video