If your mother tongue is not English, what language do you speak at work?

[zz000ter]

Interesting stuff from Statistics Canada

[URL="http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/hlt/97-555a/pages/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo=PR&Code=01&Table=1&Data=DistO&StartRec=1&Sort=8&Display=All&CSDFilter=5000"]Language used at work1 by frequency of language used at work and mother tongue, percentage distribution (2006)[/URL]


Frequency of Mother Tongue used at Work

........ . Most often -Regularly -Never
Japanese . .21.90% - 23.50% - 54.70%
Cantonese. 24.60% - 16.70% - 58.70%
Mandarin . .22.70% - 16.30% - 61.00%
Korean . . . 19.90% - 16.00% - 64.10%
Panjabi. . . .16.70% - 16.00% - 67.20%
Spanish. . . .9.60% - 15.80% - 74.60%
Russian. . . .7.70% - 12.10% - 80.20%
Polish . . . . 5.00% - 10.40% - 84.60%
Tamil. . . . . 5.00% - 9.60% - 85.40%
Ukrainian. . .3.60% - 7.50% - 88.90%
Hindi. . . . . 3.20% - 7.90% - 88.90%
Norwegian. .2.10% - 3.10% - 94.70%
Slovenian. . 0.80% - 3.70% - 95.50%

[manixc]

I am surprised about Japanese.

[sandikosh]

English

[TMaNw2338h]

I think if your business operates in English, you should be speaking English at all times.

I find it very unprofessional when employees conduct themselves otherwise.

[jaxx lite]

[QUOTE]I think if your business operates in English, you should be speaking English at all times.

I find it very unprofessional when employees conduct themselves otherwise[/QUOTE]


What if the customer or patient does not speak English
or speaks bad English
- and the employee or worker knows how to speak their language?

what to do????

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[TMaNw2338h]

[QUOTE=jaxx lite;14440613]What if the customer or patient does not speak English
or speaks bad English
- and the employee or worker knows how to speak their language?

what to do????

=[/QUOTE]

Go Home!

[eudaii]

japanese?? seriously?? i don't even know 1 japanese person

[YippoHippo]

Go to the actual page for more. OP only posted certain languages.

Mother tongue Most often (%)
Montagnais-Naskapi 62.9
Inuktitut 53
Mi'kmaq 42.9
Siouan languages (Dakota/Sioux) 37.1
Cree 29.6
Cantonese 24.6
Mandarin 22.7
Japanese 21.9
Dogrib 20.9
Chinese n.o.s. (3) 19.9
Korean 19.9
Panjabi (Punjabi) 16.7
Ojibway 16.5
Blackfoot 16.2
Yiddish 13
Thai 12.8
German 11.9
Vietnamese 11.6
Non-official languages 10
Spanish 9.6
English; French and non-official language 9.4
Portuguese 9.1
South Slave 8.8
Hakka 8.6
Russian 7.7

[spike1128]

The stats are so misleading. We all know in Canada, that Mandarin speakers has no respect for English or French whatsoever. They speak Mandarin all day long in a English working environment with their Mandarin speaking colleagues. The only moment they speak in English is when they are talking to their English speaking boss and speaking to other colleagues about work matters in English. They also just make friends with colleagues that speaks Mandarin, no one else can be their friends.

[peanutz]

[QUOTE=spike1128;14440803]The stats are so misleading. We all know in Canada, that Mandarin speakers has no respect for English or French whatsoever. They speak Mandarin all day long in a English working environment with their Mandarin speaking colleagues. The only moment they speak in English is when they are talking to their English speaking boss and speaking to other colleagues about work matters in English. They also just make friends with colleagues that speaks Mandarin, no one else can be their friends.[/QUOTE]I'm glad that Mandarin sounds better than Cantonese.

[Tornado F2]

[QUOTE=zz000ter;14440244]Interesting stuff from Statistics Canada

Frequency of Mother Tongue used at Work

........ . Most often -Regularly -Never
Japanese . .21.90% - 23.50% - 54.70%
Cantonese. 24.60% - 16.70% - 58.70%
Mandarin . .22.70% - 16.30% - 61.00%
Korean . . . 19.90% - 16.00% - 64.10%
Panjabi. . . .16.70% - 16.00% - 67.20%
Spanish. . . .9.60% - 15.80% - 74.60%
Russian. . . .7.70% - 12.10% - 80.20%
Polish . . . . 5.00% - 10.40% - 84.60%
Tamil. . . . . 5.00% - 9.60% - 85.40%
Ukrainian. . .3.60% - 7.50% - 88.90%
Hindi. . . . . 3.20% - 7.90% - 88.90%
Norwegian. .2.10% - 3.10% - 94.70%
Slovenian. . 0.80% - 3.70% - 95.50%[/QUOTE]

French is <0.8% now? Time to abandon it as an official language then. ;)

[jaysfan4life]

What is south slave? Is that the new black?

[lorry11]

Japanese people always made me surprise, i used English at my work, even my mother language is different :P

[jaxx lite]

The stats are so misleading. We all know in Canada, that Mandarin, Cantonese, Greek, Italian, Russian, German, Yiddish, Arabic, Punjabi, Tagalog, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, etc etc, etc etc speakers have no respect for English or French whatsoever. They speak Mandarin, Cantonese, Greek, Italian, Russian, German, Yiddish, Arabic, Punjabi, Tagalog, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc etc all day long in a English working environment with their Mandarin, Cantonese, Greek, Italian, Russian, German, Yiddish, Arabic, Punjabi, Tagalog, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Spanish, Portuguese, etc etc speaking colleagues. The only moment they speak in English is when they are talking to their English speaking boss and speaking to other colleagues about work matters in English. They also just make friends with colleagues that speaks Mandarin, Cantonese, Greek, Italian, Russian, German, Yiddish, Arabic, Punjabi, Tagalog, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Spanish, Portuguese, etc etc etc etc, no one else can be their friends.

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[Tornado F2]

[QUOTE=jaxx lite;14441231]The stats are so misleading. We all know in Canada, that Mandarin, Cantonese, Greek, Italian, Russian, German, Yiddish, Arabic, Punjabi, Tagalog, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, etc etc, etc etc speakers have no respect for English or French whatsoever. They speak Mandarin, Cantonese, Greek, Italian, Russian, German, Yiddish, Arabic, Punjabi, Tagalog, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc etc all day long in a English working environment with their Mandarin, Cantonese, Greek, Italian, Russian, German, Yiddish, Arabic, Punjabi, Tagalog, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Spanish, Portuguese, etc etc speaking colleagues. The only moment they speak in English is when they are talking to their English speaking boss and speaking to other colleagues about work matters in English. They also just make friends with colleagues that speaks Mandarin, Cantonese, Greek, Italian, Russian, German, Yiddish, Arabic, Punjabi, Tagalog, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Spanish, Portuguese, etc etc etc etc, no one else can be their friends.

-[/QUOTE]

I suppose they should have stayed in their Mandarin, Cantonese, Greek, Italian, Russian, German, Yiddish, Arabic, Punjabi, Tagalog, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Spanish, Portuguese, etc etc homelands then, huh? Lots of friends to talk to there. ;)