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Is teaching English the only way for a foreigner to work in Poland? [30]
Ron2,
In a work setting within Europe or Asia among other non-native, English second
language speakers I'd agree! It's sort of like the blind leading the blind really. A
Norwegian manager in Poland for a conference spearheaded by a German,
organized by a French team, won't actually need to know "English", as in reality,
the international language will be some quasi-dialect of "Globish", bearing little resemblance
to the language which authentic North American, even British English speakers recognize as
their native tongue.
As ESL-instructors, we struggle constantly to strike a professional balance, although often the
following is what comes out during classroom interchanges with speakers from any of the above
countries, all assembled in the same room:
Odd: Yeah, back in the day, yeah, I didn't never had many experience with so much foreigners
like in Oslo.
Daniel: Totally! In Germany, yeah, it is like so heavy for manager to maintained a control above
the workers in my department. They speak not often German at the work, even not in English...
Witold: Not really, but in Warsaw, Polish is like language for genius people, so stupid to fxxxking learn Polish
language, because we all talk, like, in English all day...
Having to run interference, so to speak, it next to impossible, much less correct, the myriad mistakes and
vulgarities which pepper their English in the belief that it somehow makes them sound "cool" LOL
