A TO Z OF RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
A lot of my coworkers would work in second shift because they were going to college. While most of them were young and studying towards getting a degree some of them were going to the community college to learn English. Away from their homeland and working hard and studying hard at the same time made them extra tired. Needless to ask, they were learning English because it is the language of America and they knew very well that it will help them in getting better jobs if they knew how to speak English fluently. Looking at those coworkers of mine made me grateful to my parents who made sure that the school we went to had English for medium of instruction. A lot of us went about doing our jobs and as complacency is the enemy of progress we ended up staying where we were. We forgot the fact that some places in the USA more people are speaking languages other than English. When our company gave pink slips to a lot of us, and we started looking for jobs, the hardest hurdle that came in our way was the fact that we were not bi- lingual. Then I realized some thing that was very important. Every language is important whether or not we speak it, because times change and with time jobs requirements change.
There is one language I like in particular and I wish that I could learn it. It is non other than "Sign Language".
7 comments:
You are right Munir... all languages have their own importance and I would say their own beauty :)
As a Granddaughter of Immigrant Grandparents I admire anyone who has to learn a new language. I don't know if I would be as diligent. My son was a Missionary in Taiwan for 2 years and learned to speak Chinese fluently. I took a sign language course and love it, but to really be good at it, it needs to be done daily..again, I'm not that diligent! I think they should teach other languages in school when the kids are in kindergarten....they learn so much quicker the earlier they can get it.
All languages are important, but particularly our mother tongue (which is how we pass on a chunk of our culture to the next generation) and the prevalent language of the time (which, needless to say, is English)
I'd rather try and relearn Mandarin. Shame that I've lost so much of my ability to speak it.
I've always admired people who are bilingual and multilingual. And I know that learning sign language would be challenging too, but also useful.
I believe we should all learn Chinese. My grandchildren know sign language and that will be helpful in their futures.
I've always thought sign language was beautiful and started learning it, and then for a reason I don't remember now (it was a long time ago) stopped. I hope you do get to learn it!
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