http://www.filipinasoul.com/2006/07/melissa-petri-on-expat-interviewscom/ Filipina Soul from b5media Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:32:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.filipinasoul.com/2006/07/melissa-petri-on-expat-interviewscom/comment-page-1/#comment-221 ccme.tv » I dont’t talk Thai… Get local. Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:08:01 +0000 http://www.filipinasoul.com/melissa-petri-on-expat-interviewscom/#comment-221 [...] From an interview with Melissa Atienza-Petri on Filipina Soul: Yes, it is important to speak the native language. Otherwise, one would never be able to understand why things work the way they do. A lot of my colleagues are foreign. Only a handful of them speak the local language. That is a pity since I have observed that they are missing a lot whenever the local employees talk among themselves. One can learn a lot — good and bad — about how others think when one can understand the local language. [...] [...] From an interview with Melissa Atienza-Petri on Filipina Soul: Yes, it is important to speak the native language. Otherwise, one would never be able to understand why things work the way they do. A lot of my colleagues are foreign. Only a handful of them speak the local language. That is a pity since I have observed that they are missing a lot whenever the local employees talk among themselves. One can learn a lot — good and bad — about how others think when one can understand the local language. [...]

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