Answering the phone WAS: Licensing snafu

[Bruce Easton]

Bill Akers wrote Thursday, September 20, 2007 9:39 AM:

> We have a large percentage, likely 50%, of our workers that are 
> Mexican and speak primarily Mexican(not necessarily Spanish). Most 
> of the workers are learning to speak American English, however they 
> are certainly slowed down in learning English by the large number of 
> their co-workers that speak the same primary language that they do, 
> but most are coming around slowly. It is less often that a 
> bi-lingual(Mexican) person is needed to interface with a worker who 
> speaks no English(in theory). 
[..]

I'm sure that must be a big reason why learning English is not
a top priorty for people in many areas in the country.  I see 
that in Maryland and Virginia.  And I'm sure this trend is 
growing  rapidly since, I'll bet, many of these areas have the 
fastest growth in population.

I read recently (National Geographic) that the population of 
California was expected to grow by about 18 million by 2025 
(this was written in 2000, so we are already 1/3 there). He 
also pointed out for comparison that (as of the writing) 
18 million was roughly the population of the entire state 
of New York.

Kinda scary.

Bruce

Bruce Easton
STN, Inc.