Do you think as an engineer you can work in a non English speaking country without knowing the countrys mother language?
3 Answers to "Do you think as an engineer you can work in a non English speaking country without knowing the countrys mother language?"
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I reckon it depends on the scale of the job. My brother-in-law spent roughly twenty years on big civil engineering jobs in Africa and the Middle East and he doesn't speak any other language than English. He found that the expats were a self-contained community and not everyone needed to communicate with the workforce or local people. I've seen the same on UK construction jobs - teams of Russian electrical engineers who brought along their own translators. I would find it uncomfortable and I would do a lot more research than asking on EP before heading off to such a job.
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Just crawled out of your cave, eh? Engineering is a science. English is the international language of science (and business) You can crawl back now.
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Posted by darkknight3 Jul 7th, 2012 at 5:11PM
that would be really hard !
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