Bilingualism: A Reality In Today's Workforce

Bilingualism in the workplace is a reality. Today, there are many more international professionals in New York City than ever before. Local businesses are doing business overseas and international businesses are making our city their own. Barack Obama says that Americans should strive to learn a foreign language. Giuliani responded by stating that Obama "reinforces Anti-American feelings". When you go to work tomorrow, take a look at the people who make up your team. What would that picture look like without them? How does that picture look with them? Where do you fit in? Chances are that on your way to work today you heard more than one language—that is, if sound wasn't completely drowned out by your ipod. How many of those languages you heard did you understand? One, two, or more? How many times have you wished you knew what language was being spoken? And of those times, how many did you wish you could actually communicate in? Think about it. Then try it.