Nicaragua: Growing Demand for Bilingual Staff

It is increasingly common for companies to look for accountants, managers, engineers, architects and technicians who are bilingual.

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Although more and more companies are looking for bilingual staff, language schools believe that the demand for courses is still too low to meet the needs of entrepreneurs and investment entering the country.

Even so , " Nicaraguans have recently realized the importance of English, it is the language of business worldwide, it is the language of the internet, documents , and they now feel that it is becoming a priority," said Franklin Tellez, academic director of the Nicaraguan American Cultural Center (CCNN) .

According to Elsie Rivas , general manager of Wall Street Institute, "it would be " catastrophic " for the country if in the next few years there is not an acceleration in the formation of labor in English because that would affect the arrival of more investment."

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