| Timestamp | What is your First Language? | What is your Second Language? | What Country did you do your First Internship in? | Comparing your two internships, to what extent do you feel that language had an impact on how much you were able to learn both inside and outside the workplace? | What Country did you do your Second Internship in? | How many languages do you speak? | In your internship done in your first language, were there any misunderstandings caused because of language communication problems ? | How fluent are you in your Second Language ? | To what extent to do you feel like there was a difference between what you learnt as a native speaker compared to a Foreign intern who did not natively speak the language. | To what extend do you feel that your proficiency in your second language had changed from working in the country of your second language. | In your internship done in your second language, were there any misunderstandings caused because of language communication problems ? |
| 12/5/2019 16:27:43 | Chinese | English | Shanghai | When you live in a country other than your native language, you will go out to play during your break, and you will definitely ask passers-by because you cannot find your way. At this time, voice communication problems will bother us, and everyone may not fully understand what the other person is saying. meaning. | Australia | Two | Because the customs and habits of people in different places are different, the pronunciation of a word will also be different, so when I am in the morning shift, I often ask my colleagues if you slept well last night? Then because of pronunciation problems, colleagues often misunderstand that you are sleeping? | 6 | When your mother tongue is English, most schools teach in English, and their understanding will be easier. If the first language is not English, some new words will not be recognized and the understanding of knowledge will be biased, which will be more prominent during the internship process. | I think when working in a non-native country, colleagues around you speak English, this environment will improve your second language ability, because only by listening and speaking continuously will your level improve | It happens often because you come to a country where you don't speak your own language. Compared with locals, speaking your mother tongue from an early age will be higher than you. Sometimes you want to express a meaning, but you do not know what words to use to describe it, which will cause confusion and misunderstanding to others. |
| 12/5/2019 21:17:51 | English | Indonesian | Bintan, Indonesia | I feel like the things that I learnt were different in each place that I interned in. When I interned in Indonesia, the country of my second language, I felt a lot more immersed in my second language culture and speaking the language in the country felt a lot more natural that I was expecting, but in the workplace I feel like me being able to speak english was more of an advantage than me speaking Indonesian. Because I was able to speak english more fluently than the other interns, I was sort of, entrusted with more responsibility with higher profile guests that spoke english because i was more fluent in english than others. So technically I wouldn't say that me speaking my second language was more advantageous. And in my internship in and English speaking country, the Indonesian only came in handy when speaking to Indonesian guests who didn't really speak english. So in that case I don't really think language had an impact in my internship in english. | Singapore | Two | Usually misunderstandings weren't caused because of language but because of the way information was presented or explained and sometimes misunderstanding of procedures. As it is my first language it wasn't hard to communicate what I needed from others. | 6 | I was lucky enough to meet a few foreign interns on the job. They spoke english very well, so I do not feel like there was a big difference between what we learnt job wise. But I definitely feel like language wise they definitely learnt more than I did. | Speaking in my second language on the daily gave me more opportunity to pick up on the nuances of the language and gave me more knowledge about local and technically words that I wouldn't have been able to learn just by speaking my second language with my family. I also learnt more slang words when speaking with my coworkers. | For sure, because I don't have the local accent when speaking the language sometimes informations gets mixed up. Especially over the phone, when information is already not clear, my accent makes certain words sound like other words, or I couldn't really understand what someone else was speaking because they were speaking too fast and I couldn't pick up what they were saying fast enough. But because they knew about my language fluency I think they were more understanding, haha. |
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