Traditionally, foreign language teaching and learning usually take place in the classroom, with little or no opportunity to use the language in an authentic professional situation. Old-fashioned paper-based methods are used, mostly course-based from basic to advanced. Virtex is innovative and competence based, and presents several themes from real life situations at different language levels.Virtex4all aims to combine the best of these two worlds in a total language learning approach that is cost-effective and easy to use by language teachers in hotel and catering education.