Survival Spanish for Today

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• Survival Spanish for Todays Workforce
• Presented by Ed Rosheim, Workplace Languages

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A Little More Background

• Who we are
• Todays presenter
• Our approach

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KwikFix Spanish Conversation

• 1. Hola 2. Buenas tardes
• 1. Cuál es su nombre? 2. Mi nombre es _____ .
  Y usted?
• 1. Mi nombre es _____ . 2. Mucho gusto
• 1. Igualmente 2. Adiós
• 1. Hasta luego

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US Immigrant Population

• Immigrants are
• 1 in 9 U.S. residents
• 1 in 7 U.S. workers
• 1 in 5 low-wage workers
• 1 in 2 new workers
• A Quick Look at U.S. Immigrants Demographics,
  Workforce, and Asset-Building
• http//www.ncsl.org/programs/immig/immigstatistics
  0604.htm

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Immigrants in the US

• Immigrants' hourly wages are typically lower than
  those of US-born workers
• Almost two-thirds of low-wage immigrant workers
  do not speak English proficiently
• One-third of the foreign-born population is from
  Mexico or Central America

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Who is Hispanic?

• The US Census Bureau counts Hispanic or Latino as
  an ethnicity, not a race
• Hispanic refers to people whose language,
  traditions or cultural heritage derive from any
  of the Spanish-speaking countries and Puerto Rico
• They may be bilingual, monolingual
  Spanish-speakers or speak little/no Spanish
• They may be of any single or mixed racial origin

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A Rose by any other Name

• Hispanic? Latino? Mexican?

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19 Spanish-Speaking Countries

• Argentina
• Bolivia
• Chile
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Dominican Republic
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala

• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Spain
• Uruguay
• Venezuela
• (Puerto Rico)

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Countries with Largest Spanish-Speaking
Population

• Mexico
• Spain
• Colombia
• Argentina
• United States of America

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Countries of Origin

• Mexico 20,653,906
• Central South America 3,036,300
• Cuba 1,235,703
• Puerto Rico 3,389,358
• Dominican Republic 776,728
• Other countries 6,213,823
• TOTAL 35,305,818
• (2000 US Census)

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Verb Chart
English Verb Spanish Verb I (Yo)
Can Poder Puedo
Must/Should Deber Debo
To need Necesitar Necesito
To want Querer Quiero
To be Estar Estoy
To have Tener Tengo
To fill Llenar lleno
To take out Sacar Saco
To understand Comprender Comprendo
To speak Hablar Hablo
To listen Escuchar Escucho

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Verb Chart
English Verb Spanish Verb Command (1) Command (1)
To fill Llenar llene llenen
To take out Sacar Saque Saquen
To speak Hablar Hable Hablen
To listen Escuchar Escuche Escuchen
To begin Empezar Empiece Empiecen
To work Trabajar Trabaje Trabajen
To clean Limpiar Limpie Limpien
To end/finish Terminar Termine Terminen
To help Ayudar Ayude Ayuden
To prepare Preparar Prepare Preparen
To wash Lavar Lave Laven

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Practice with Dates Numbers

• 1) October 21 el veintiuno (21) de octubre
• 2) Monday, November lunes, el ocho (8) de
  noviembre
• 3) Thursday, December jueves, el primero (1) de
  diciembre

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Family

• Large, extended families
• Cousins often like siblings
• Grandparents, aunts/uncles often live with family
  (or help provide for them)
• Often send money back to family
• Padrino/Madrino
• Godparents, more than symbolic
• Patriarchal

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Last Name System

• María Sánchez Velazquez
• Sánchez fathers fathers name
• Velazquez mothers fathers name
• She goes by María Sánchez
• When she marries Alberto Diaz Gómez
• She becomes María Sánchez de Diaz.
• Her son, Juan, is Juan Diaz Sánchez.

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Last Name System

• Jill Lara Kushner is the daughter of Natalie
  Kessler and Alan Kushner
• What would her name be in the Spanish system?
• She marries Mark Bishop. What would her full
  name be?

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Putting It Together

• Do you want ? Quiere ? (key-air-ay)
• QUESTION WORDS
• How? Cómo? (koh-moh)
• How many? Cuántos? (kwahn-tohs)
• How much? Cuánto? (kwahn-toh)
• What? Qué? (kay)
• When? Cuándo? (kwahn-doh)
• Where? Dónde? (dohn-day)
• Who? Quién? (key-en)
• Why? Por qué? (pohr / kay)
• At what time? A qué hora? (ah / kay / oh-rah)
  
• Examples
• What do you want?
• How many do you want?
• Where do you want it?

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US Hispanic Population

• Hispanics now comprise 1 in 7 of US population
• 2005 41.3 million
• 2000 35 million
• 1990 22 million
• Mexicans comprise more than half of the Hispanic
  population (20 million)
• Hispanics accounted for half of the population
  growth from 2003-2004 (total 2.9 million)

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Hispanic Purchasing Power

• Today 700 billion
• By 2010 1 trillion

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Other Praise Words

• Fantástico!
• Excelente!
• Lo agradezco I appreciate it

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How Are You?

• Are you _____? Estás _____ ?
  (ay-stahs)
• Yes, I am _________ Si, estoy ______ (see /
  ay-stoy)
• No, I am not _______ No, no estoy ______ (no /
  no / ay-stoy)
• Are you _____ ?
• fine, OK, good, swell bien (bee-ayn)
• busy ocupado (a) (oh-koo-pah-doh)
• hur lastimado (a) (lah-stee-mah-doh)
• sick enfermo (a) (en-fair-moh)
• tired cansado (a) (kahn-sah-doh)

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English Proficiency

• The Limited-English Proficient (LEP) population
  has doubled from 1980 (6) to 2000 (12), to 25
  million adults

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What do we do about LEP?

• Help them learn English
• Academic classes at community colleges, night
  school, community organizations
• Workforce ESL
• Increases efficiencies, improves customer
  service, decreases turnover
• Build their confidence
• Often know more than theyre comfortable saying
• Butoften understand more than they can say

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What do we do about LEP?

• Translate training manuals, recipe guides,
  performance reviews, newsletters, paperwork
• Provide interpreters for employee meetings,
  performance reviews, complaints

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What do we do about LEP?

• Learn their language
• Academic
• Occupational
• Increases efficiencies, builds trust and loyalty
• Lets work on learning some!

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Muchas Gracias!

• For more information and
• free downloadable files visit
• www.workplacelanguages.com