Habla espanol?

[Jason Pallas]

Solo una pregunta - quantos personas aqui habla espanol? Si, habla usted, es su lengua primaria o secondaria? Gracias - hablo los dos (ingles y espanol) - estoy curiouso porque hay muchos companias en las industria que tiene empleados que solo habla espanol y pienso que hay mucho beneficios quando ahy un jefe quien puede hablar a estos empleados.

[Evan528]

lol! Im going to try decifer and understand what I can! I do not speak spanish great, but enough to communicate what i neeed to my employees. I have started using spanish speaking employees last year. I had 4 of them working for me. The employees i has spoke little or no english. I think you asked the benefits of spanish speaking employees since so many company's use them? Well thats easy....there the only guys who want to work for there money! Most dont complain and they work very hard! So how did i do? I probly anserd the opposite of what you wanted! :)

[walker-talker]

I speak a litte Spanish, although English is my primary language. Once the factory where I work started to employ many Mexicans, I took a couple of semesters at the university. This helped quite a bit, that and I went out with a couple of the Mexicans that I worked with. Although, I still need a translator from time to time. I was thumbing through a catalog of holticulture book yesterday and saw a book that was dedicated to common Spanish phrases used in this industry.

MATT

[King City Lawns]

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[thegrasscatchers]

Although I hire day labor that is mostly spanish-speaking, my regulars must be completely proficient in the English Language. Many times, my crew will have to leave a note on a door, or speak directly to a customer, so as part of the interview, i have them type a letter on the computer, as an introduction to my other employees. This serves as my spelling and grammer test. I know they are hired as laborers, but I like to show a certain image of my employees, and a customer getting a note that has mispellings just wont do it in my book. Just my opinion.

[KirbysLawn]

Maye be need to make a spanish forum....:p

[PRECISION LC]

come again

[mdb landscaping]

i had 12 years of spanish in school. they made us start at an early age. i cant beleive i remembered so much, because i actually understood what you wrote. i dont have any employees, just work solo, but if i ever get a spanish employee, i should be able to communicate with him.

[longslawn]

I have 2 Hispanic and 2 Americans that work with me. The Hispanics are harder workers and are willing to do what ever is nessasary to get the job done. If I need any more employees I will look at the Hispanic employee first, but also American workers. The 2 Americans that work with me are very good workers also.

[JimLewis]

I am decent at spanish. I understood everything you said above except 'pienso'. But I read it or hear it better than I speak it.

When I speak spanish, I call it broken spanish. Much like the way hispanics botch our language many times when they try to speak it, that's about how I speak spanish.

Translation from one of my typical conversations to a hispanic worker, "I speak with Jeff on telephone. He and Josh go to home for all day. No more working today. You can go to your home too. Until tomorrow."

It works. But I really should take more time to learn more.

Yes, you are correct. I will pay more for a crew leader who speaks both english and spanish.

[AztlanLC]

Es una ventaja mas poder expresar exactamente lo que uno quiere a sus trabajadores, siendo que naci en mexico mi espanol es mejor que mi ingles, pero en este trabajo esa ha sido una ventaja muy grande.

[bullfrog]

No puedo hablar espanol. Nada.

[Fantasy Lawns]

Sería mejor emplear a un capataz quien habla el español y el inglés

[MATTHEW]

Buenos tacos, patrones!

[Guardian]

Solamente Quiero decir, Criste' es mi senor y el vive en mi corazone y le amo a el mucho

Dios les bendiga

(?)

En el ano de novacienta ochenta y ocho, yo fui a la cuidad de Morelos (coah, Mexico). -con mis englesia

Thats about all I remember - I probably didn't spell much of it correctly.

[MikeLT1Z28]

that's a pretty good question, not sure how many people use crews or have bilingual/monolingual employees.

i speak a little bit of spanish so i'll try it... you speak english and spanish, english is of course my primary language. and you are right there are many companys in the industry that do have immigrants speaking only spanish. I think if someone in a large enough company is going to be a crew leader it would be a must to be bilingual to be able to speak to the employees.

how'd i do?

Mike
MPC Lawnworks (thanks Hoss)

[little green guy]

yo hablar pequieto espanol. Si, es mucho beneficios por todos bosens hablar espanol y ingles porque most of the people en el landscape industria en mi area are hispanic. lo siento para mi gramatica incorrecto, yo hablar spanglish, yo es no bueno hablar solo espanol.

when i speak spanish i mix in words in english alot i don't know spanish well enough. I'm trying to learn more, i'd like to speak it fluienty but right know i know enough to communicate with the workers. Most of the guys i've worked with speak a little english so we speak like half and half because i'm not that good at spanish we speak spanglish. Mostly all the landscape companies in my area have hispanic workers and even alot of the owners of companies in my area are spanish.

[CompleteLawn Service]

Jason Pallas wrote "Solo una pregunta - quantos personas aqui habla espanol? Si, habla usted, es su lengua primaria o secondaria? Gracias - hablo los dos (ingles y espanol) - estoy curiouso porque hay muchos companias en las industria que tiene empleados que solo habla espanol y pienso que hay mucho beneficios quando ahy un jefe quien puede hablar a estos empleados."

In english it say's

"Only one question- How many people here speak spanish? If you speak it is it your first or second language? Thanks - I speak the both ( english and spanish ) - I'm curiuos because their's alot of companies in this industry that have employes who only speak spanish and I "think"(pienso) theirs alot of benefits when a boss can speak with these employes."

Give or take a little error maybe. Hey I'm a white boy though!

Take it easy! Jeff

[beck]

Me hablo Espanol tambien. Yo tuve(past tense of tener) quatro anos en colegio, que es cinco anos pasado. Pero cuando necesito hablar a uno trabajedor yo recuerdo mas y mas cada dia. Es mas facil para yo a hablar espanol a mi trabajedor como el a hablar ingles. Solomente tengo un trabajedor ahora.

There is a spanish/english translator for landscaping.

The website is:

www.emp-translators.com

[big james]

why waste time doing this ,this is still America right ?:(