After the non-Japanese Carlos Ghosn was brought in by Nissan to turn around the struggling auto manufacturer, he made English the company's official working language.
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Increasingly, corporate executives who don't speak Japanese are coming into Japan. Unlike their predecessors, they expect their employees to be able to communicate in English.
Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.
My career did start in the Spanish language industry, and that's probably because my father is my manager. He pushed my career in the direction he knew best.
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
Latinos are learning English. That doesn't mean that they should sacrifice their original language or that they should give up this in-betweeness that is Spanglish.
Apparently Arnold was inspired by President Bush, who proved you can be a successful politician in this country even if English is your second language.
When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'
I worked at a job where 90 percent of my coworkers were Spanish-speaking, and some of them were only Spanish-speaking. My rule was if someone came into the office needing something - I worked in HR at the time - they had to bring a Spanish word to teach me. That was the deal.
I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else's movie from Spanish into English. And it wasn't such a good film in Spanish, either.
If Japanese companies don't reform drastically and implement English as their daily business language, the economy will only continue to contract.
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