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Foreign Languages in the workplace

remorseless · 2015-06-10 18:31:18

I was talking to a friend the other day and he mentioned that his manager mentioned in the last team meeting that they must speak English only when at their desk? The office is multi-cultural in central London with mostly expats who speak their language amongst each other. All business as usual is conducted in English (of…

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Doshwaster Posts: 6,351 Forumite

18 June 2015 at 8:11PM

pinkshoes wrote: »

It is basic manners not to speak in a foreign language at work if others are present that do not understand.

There's a French woman who sits a few desks away from me. Should I be offended if she speaks to her French husband on the phone in French? Or is bad manners for me to try to eavesdrop into other people's private conversations?

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