Originally Posted by
Jolie
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Sorry, but I think you're making excuses there. Part of the reason NZIS is so insistent on English proficiency is because migrants who come to work here will have to be able to communicate effectively with people from many different countries. Saying, "Well I'm sure they do a good job with all the migrants from their own country" is not really a good justification.
And since I'm not going to specify where the employees were from, people on this forum are not going to know whether it's the same country as them. It's not relevant, anyway. I know several people from the same country here who are quite fluent in English. I will say that it's a country which seems not to have a huge number of members in this forum.
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Sorry, you missed my point...
I wasn't making excuses for them as I wasn't there and no idea whether it is just an accent issue i.e. they can and do speak english well, or if it is a language issue and that they don't speak english as well as they should?
The point I was trying to make (badly) was that whilst not speaking english well would be a bad point for you and many others on this forum and your recommendation to avoid them would be useful, for others who maybe could converse with them in their native language then this could actually be an advantage to them.
Ian