Many times our clients tell us, “Our employees can speak English, but they don’t know how to speak English.” We know that what is meant by this is that there are sometimes cultural nuances with learning a language that are missing when learning the language in a classroom.
For example, saying “your turn to speak now!” is perfectly fine in the Argentinian workplace. It shows interest in your opinion and gives you a chance to speak your mind. But in an American workplace, it comes off as aggressive and domineering.
Cadence Advising provides services to alleviate the pressure of miscommunication that come along with those pesky pragmatic, discursive, and cultural differences.