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| yantai_scot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4787 days ago 157 posts - 214 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 17 of 18 08 May 2014 at 7:35pm | IP Logged |
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I'd quite like to try computer programming. But I have no idea if I'd have any interest
in it nor aptitude. Is there any particular code or website that you'd recommend for someone to 'dip their toe in the water'? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4429 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 18 of 18 09 May 2014 at 3:04am | IP Logged |
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In a place like Canada we recognize English & French as official languages. You would speak either 1 or the other
depending on the part of the country. There are certain number of jobs that are posted as bilingual even technical jobs. Part of the reason is that the company deal with customers in Quebec (French-speaking) and the rest of the country (English-speaking). There are jobs for the federal government in Ottawa or in Sudbury (processing income tax info) that require applicants to be bilingual. The other reason of posting a job as bilingual is to narrow down the number of applicants who are qualified for a job. Even when a job doesn't really require you to know 2 languages, being able to speak both fluently would put your credentials ahead of the monolinguals. I once worked at a Canada Employment Centre. We used to get job seekers of different nationalities, some are not very fluent in English. Although the position did not specify that you have to know another language beside English, I was responsible in translating for the Chinese job seekers while the Romanian lady in the office would talk to the Italians who had limited English. Edited by shk00design on 09 May 2014 at 3:08am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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