JOBS: Linguistic Mistakes On My Part
Sep. 30th, 2021 05:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineI did wash out on the French test this morning.
Frankly, it was and still is the responsible thing for this particular employer to do, and - more importantly - the kind thing to do. Hospitals in the National Capital Region on either side of the Québec-Ontario border absolutely need fluently bilingual people filling their public-facing job categories.
Eventually, you'd ideally want to have everyone on such a payroll to have at least one additional language on their resumé, too, since we are both a national capital region - with the international traffic you'd expect because of embassies, consulates, legations, etc., as well as respecting our treaty duties to our Indigenous relations. Around Ottawa, that would imply a need for Anishnaabemowin, the Haudenosonee languages, some people with Inuktut fluency as well because of the back-and-forth medical traffic between Ottawa and Iqaluit.
I have no regrets about this, except that I have neglected keeping up my French-language skills since moving here from Saskatchewan. That's my mistake to own.
Back to watching videos on Clip Studio Paint, font design via Typewknd, and other chores tonight...
Frankly, it was and still is the responsible thing for this particular employer to do, and - more importantly - the kind thing to do. Hospitals in the National Capital Region on either side of the Québec-Ontario border absolutely need fluently bilingual people filling their public-facing job categories.
Eventually, you'd ideally want to have everyone on such a payroll to have at least one additional language on their resumé, too, since we are both a national capital region - with the international traffic you'd expect because of embassies, consulates, legations, etc., as well as respecting our treaty duties to our Indigenous relations. Around Ottawa, that would imply a need for Anishnaabemowin, the Haudenosonee languages, some people with Inuktut fluency as well because of the back-and-forth medical traffic between Ottawa and Iqaluit.
I have no regrets about this, except that I have neglected keeping up my French-language skills since moving here from Saskatchewan. That's my mistake to own.
Back to watching videos on Clip Studio Paint, font design via Typewknd, and other chores tonight...
