About Lugano English
– the language school which gets results –
Lugano English is a new school in Via Berna 2, Lugano, just eight minutes walk from Piazza Riforma. Although a new school, its teachers are qualified and experienced.
Andrew Bone, Director

The director of Lugano English, Andrew Bone, has taught English for more than 20 years in Ticino, and before that in Italy and in Zurich. He is the director of Transalpine Technical Translations, a translation company founded in 1992, which supplies scientific, engineering and other technical documents to companies all over the world, in all European languages. Andrew speaks English as his mother tongue (he is Australian/British), and is fluent in German and Italian, and has a good knowledge of French.
Client List
Under the previous name of Transalpine Language Services, the staff of Lugano English have taught language courses for English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Russian in these companies and others:
- UBS Lugano, Private Banking
- UBS Lugano, Wealth Management
- UBS Manno
- UBS Chiasso
- Credit Suisse, Lugano
- Credit Suisse, Chiasso
- Unicredit (now Axion), Lugano
- Danzas, Balerna
- Raiffeisen Bank, Mendrisio
- Finter Bank, Chiasso
- Bloomberg, Lugano
- PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Lugano
- Vaudoise Assicurazione, Mendrisio
- Hupac Intermodal, Chiasso
- Liceo, Mendrisio
- Didac Scuola AuPair, Paradiso, Lugano
- TASIS, The American School in Switzerland, Montagnola
Names of individual referants in the above companies are available on request.