At 29 he left for Ecuador to learn Spanish. He planned a 2-3 month stay, but ended up living there for 13 years, getting marryied and working as a sales representative for international corporations such as Mannesmann and Siemens. To improve his English he enrolled in courses at the Wall Street Institute. He has lived in Prague for nearly a year, and the Czech branch of Wall Street Institute, opened at the start of the year, already boasts over 150 students. Courses are conducted using interactive teaching via multimedia video, where the student communicates via computer, but also includes tutorials with native speakers.
Fink believes that the lack of a fixed timetable is also an advantage.
A student attends whenever he feels like, and works at his own pace. The basic course, giving you a spoken knowledge of English, is nine months long on average, and costs CZK 30,000. Fink admits his school is not the cheapest in town, but the investment pays. Less than ten years after his firm's establishment, it can boast of the largest lease contract in the Czech Republic, closed with Eurotel. Eurotel will immediately rent two buildings in the BB Centrum project in Prague 4, with construction costs on the order of CZK 1.25 billion, which should be ready for occupancy in January 2002.