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February 19, 2008

It's nice to be quoted....

From StudyAbroad.com...

Fortunately, it was a harmless mistake and you didn't make it while, say, interviewing for a job. But if you want to work with the 3.5 million Irish who live in the United States, or the almost 5 million in Ireland itself-if you want to benefit from the skill of being bilingual-you need to learn the language well.

Edward Trimnell, author of Why You Need a Foreign Language & How to Learn One, once said, "If your work involves the Mexican Market and you don't speak and read Spanish, then you are functionally illiterate [there]."

This is also a great page about Irish Gaelic, if that is your interest....