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Euroasia is a New Zealand-based provider of European and Asian language training, cross cultural consulting and translation services.

In 2007, Euroasia was recognised by National Business Review as the third most exciting company in education¹, for their unique contribution to the education sector.

Euroasia also maintains a blog on language and culture.

History

Euroasia started as the European Language Academy (ELA), founded in Auckland in 2000. This was a boutique European language school, geared to the teaching of the most popular European languages. Kenneth Leong, Director, took over the reins in late-2003. ELA was then joined by the Asian Language Academy(ALA), founded in 2006 as a complementary Asian language school.

ELA was not just a language school: but also offered a range of services to businesses and to schools; ELA operated a Cross Cultural consultancy that specialised in helping companies and individuals deal with the multi-cultural environment in which many of them operated.

As the company expanded, Euroasia decided to create an umbrella name to cover all the services provided. The name chosen was Euroasia - to reflect "the world we wish to open up to New Zealanders"².

Euroasia has its head office in Parnell, Auckland, its second office in Christchurch.

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