The Bilingual Insider™

Meet Charlotte — a cosmopolitan Brit living in Geneva. Her French is impeccable, thanks to an upbringing split between Luxembourg and Monaco, where she attended international schools. She moves as effortlessly through the Swiss Alps on skis as she does through luxury boutiques during Europe’s major fashion weeks. 

Charlotte holds a degree in études littéraires classiques and can translate Le Bourgeois gentilhomme without blinking. But mastery of Molière doesn’t necessarily prepare you for the markets. Her parents run a family office in Geneva and have enlisted her to translate into English the French‑language prospectuses of various ETFs they invest in. 

However, le hic is that French financial jargon isn’t exactly her specialty. The moment she opens the documents, a migraine hits. She mutters to herself:

— “What on earth is a numéro CUSIP? How am I supposed to know what a contrat dérivé à terme is? And seriously — excuse my French, but WTF is a fiducie intermédiaire de placement déterminée? Since when is that even a thing?” 

The deeper she gets into the prospectuses, the more she feels as if she’s been teleported into a knock‑off version of the French Rooster of Wall Street! The good news is that we can help Charlotte decode this cryptic language. 

If Charlotte’s experience feels familiar, start by visiting our Products page and selecting the language‑level assessment that fits your needs.