Getting work done takes a little “trabajo’ - “Occupational Spanish” focuses on limited words, phrases.

Posted on: March 9th, 2006
Filed Under: [ Hispanic News ]
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“Nine mostly middle-aged pupils have traveled to Newtown for the evening Spanish class at Bucks County Community College. But they have no intention of becoming fluent. With spring less than two weeks away, these lawn-care company bosses merely want to learn enough to direct simple instructions and questions to the Mexican and Central American employees who have become essential to their business.

“Occupational Spanish,” which focuses on a narrow set of job-specific phrases and a few pleasantries, represents a burgeoning segment of language education in the United States, where almost seven million Spanish-speaking adults have little or no command of English, according to the 2000 U.S. Census. If illegal immigrants are included, no one knows what the actual number is.”

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