Language Connect recently took part in their first Business Language Champions workshop at the Convent for Jesus and Mary Language College in Willesden and I’m happy to report that it was a raging success.
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First UK Bus employs 2,000 drivers in Glasgow, 9% of whom are from Eastern Europe, mostly Poland. For 2 years, Polish speaking employee Jimmy Lillis, a native Glaswegian, has been teaching these colleagues how to understand the local slang. Lillis explains the problem with Glaswegian. ‘When they first started, a lot of the Eastern European drivers found it strange that we don’t speak natural English,’ he says. ‘They came here thinking, ‘I’m quite good at English,’ but then, all of a sudden, somebody would say ‘Geez an aw day,’ and they’d be shocked.’
