ELT World » business English Your local friendly TEFL blog Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:32:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Europe: English is necessary but not always sufficient in business /2008/12/english-is-necessary-but-not-always-sufficient-in-business/ /2008/12/english-is-necessary-but-not-always-sufficient-in-business/#comments Sun, 28 Dec 2008 06:06:23 +0000 david /news/?p=260 Europe: There are more than 4,000 Europeans building a nuclear power plant here – Poles, Germans, French, Finns, Swedes. What’s the language spoken on the work site? English, even though none are native English speakers. “When you only communicate with people in English, you only get a certain level of what’s going on,” said Marie-Luise Gaettens, chair of the foreign languages department at Southern Methodist University.

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