Example: several of my former coworkers are from Mexico, Peru and Argentina, meaning they share Spanish as a common language.

I used to practice Spanish with them, but my last charge (like a ward’s manager) would yell at us to stop it, use English only. She would get very angry really fast if she heard anything in a language she didn’t understand.

I find it stupid, because some of them would use Spanish to better explain to the new nurses how to do certain procedures, but maybe I’m missing something?

  • sunbeam60
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    1 天前

    It very much depends on the work place and the composition of the work force. If there are two dominant languages they will tend to fragment the team into two pools, in which case I think it makes perfect sense to unify.

    In many countries with big international companies English is mandated as a working language even when there is 95% speaking another language as their primary. Such is the power of English as a business language.