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If you want a good job and live in the US, you need to know English! If you already have a good job, you better start learning English before you possibly lose it!

Learning English will allow you to write “excellent knowledge of English” on your résumé. Knowing English is essential for many jobs. You’ll be able to communicate with customers, employees, co-workers, vendors and your supervisor. Knowing English will give you that something special that stands out on a résumé.

Additionally, all else being equal on resumes, knowing more than one language gives you an edge over monolingual applicants competing for the same job. You’ll have an asset that employers are looking for.

Knowing English also makes you indispensible at work and because of this, you may be able to command a greater salary. You will be the one who interprets for your co-workers, customers and supervisors. You’ll be crucial to the successful daily operations at work. You’ll have an asset the boss won’t want to do without! This creates great job security for you!

You could even become a world-class business person.  Many businesses today are international and international business is done in English. So if you want to do well in business, you have to know English — to contact other businesspeople, meet them at conferences, read international business newspapers and magazines, and obtain information for your business on the internet.

One of the most important benefits to knowing English is simply improving communication at work; you’ll be able to speak with your clients, customers, employees or co-workers. Plus if everyone at your job speaks English you’ll be more productive and possibly even safer if everyone can understand each other clearly. Besides it being essential to speak English at work- it’s just plain fun to communicate with someone in their language! Check out www.ingleseneltrabajo.com for programs that help you learn English for your particular job.

As far as excelling in your career and making more money: Knowing English is simply the best way to increase your chances of obtaining your dream job and earning more money. And this could give you and your family a better life!

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Research shows that knowledge of other languages boosts our understanding of languages in general and enables us to use our native language more effectively. Second language learners have stronger vocabulary skills, a better understanding of the language, and improved literacy in general.

People who learn a second language also gain enhanced listening skills and memory abilities. They show greater ability in areas such as creativity, and higher order thinking skills, such as problem-solving, conceptualizing, and reasoning.

Additionally, learning another language exposes you to unfamiliar cultural ideas, so you’ll be much better equipped to adapt and cope in a fast-changing world. You’ll learn to effectively handle new situations and it will improve your ability to understand and communicate with people from different walks of life.

If you have children, you can help them learn another language. Children who have studied a language at the elementary level score higher on tests in reading, language arts, and math. By you learning a second language, you can help your children improve their lives as well!

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KAMMS’ Language Learning Collection (Spanish on the Job and English on the Job) now available through our new global partner, Franklin Electronics Publishers, Inc. KAMMS joins Franklin’s other distinguished content providers such as: Merriam-Webster, Oxford University Press, Bertelsmann, EncyclopediaBritannica, HarperCollins, Larousse, Langenscheidt, The Princeton Review. Check it out at this link! http://www.franklin.com/handhelds/language_learning/kamms/

It’s all about communication! We humans just want to understand each other. No matter what language we speak, the goal is always the same: communication. It seems that most language learning companies forget this simple premise.The majority of companies out there, like Rosetta Stone and Berlitz have this silly idea that the general public wants to learn the entire language and all the boring grammar rules that go along with it. The truth is that less than 4% of the population enjoys learning a language in this way. The result is that most give up or don’t even try.It just seems so simple to teach people what they need to communicate and nothing more (unless they’re part of the 4% mentioned above). If you agree, please help us spread the word that learning a language CAN be easy and fun!

KAMMS’ programs don’t bog people down with useless vocabulary or boring grammar. You learn what you need to communicate ~ and that’s all!

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Research shows that knowledge of other languages boosts our understanding of languages in general and enables us to use our native language more effectively. Second language learners have stronger vocabulary skills, a better understanding of the language, and improved literacy in general. People who learn a second language also gain enhanced listening skills and memory abilities. They show greater ability in areas such as creativity, and higher order thinking skills, such as problem-solving, conceptualizing, and reasoning.Additionally, learning another language exposes you to unfamiliar cultural ideas, so you’ll be much better equipped to adapt and cope in a fast-changing world. You’ll learn to effectively handle new situations and it will improve your ability to understand and communicate with people from different walks of life.

If you have children, you can help them learn a second language too. Children who have studied a language at the elementary level score higher on tests in reading, language arts, and math. By you learning another language, you can help your children improve their lives as well!

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Check out our sites: www.spanishonthejob.com and www.ingleseneltrabajo.com for the most affordable, convenient and effective audio, video and workbook programs.

Whether you’re traveling for vacation or work; you’ll be able to get around more easily and communicate with people wherever you go. In most countries, people will appreciate your attempts to use their language. You will be able to communicate more completely and have a deeper, more satisfying travel experience.

Being able to communicate in the native language allows you to fully participate in day-to-day life, understand the culture and communicate with the people. When you know the language, you have the comfort of being able to successfully navigate all sorts of situations, like ordering meals in restaurants, asking for and understanding directions, finding accommodations, negotiating cheaper prices, meeting and talking with natives or asking for help. If you don’t know the language, it can be frustrating and downright dangerous. Who knows, maybe knowing a second language will even save your life someday!

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Check out our Spanish on the Job www.spanishonthejob.com or English on the Job www.englishonthejob.net titles today!

You may be familiar with someone I admire greatly and the Nobel Peace prize winner, Muhammed Unas. Dr Yunus created the concept of micro-finance. He started the Grameen bank that gives small loans to low-income women and men to start and build businesses. His guidance and inspiration has empowered thousands of poor people to create small businesses which take them out of poverty, ultimately promoting peace in the world. I strongly believe that we all have unique gifts that can help people in many different ways and (in the big picture) promote peace in our world. The reason I’m so passionate about what we do here at KAMMS is because I feel communication is the essence of humanity. It’s an innate desire we all possess: to communicate with other human beings. I also believe that bringing people together through language and understanding each other’s culture will promote peace in the U.S. and around the world. And I’m not the only one! Here are a few examples of others who share my sentiments about the importance of languages and culture:

• The top official for the United Nations stated that “multilingualism is a means of promoting, protecting and preserving the diversity of the world’s languages and cultures.”
• Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information said: “Languages, which ones you understand or speak, read or write, whether on the Internet or in your society, can make the difference between knowing and not knowing”.
• The UN Coordinator for Multilingualism said: Knowing languages can also make the difference between “being able to participate and being excluded.”

I think we can all agree that it’s crucial to learn other languages and understand other cultures, given our ever growing diversity, instant connectivity to around the world, and opportunities it would afford us. So why then do so many of us choose not to gain this knowledge. Let’s explore one of the responses I receive when I ask this question:“I’m no good at languages. I tried in high school (or college) and just couldn’t do it.” This one bothers me the most; considering I was a high school Spanish teacher and I witnessed the many antiquated teaching methods still in use today. It’s more than likely you were taught with the following:

• irrelevant vocabulary you’d never use (my school taught vocabulary for going fishing, scuba diving and skiing)
• grammar rules first (you learned approximately 50 ways to conjugate a verb – good luck figuring out which one to use when you’re trying to have a conversation)
• vocabulary out of context (you learned a list you had to memorize, so you know a lot of words, but you can’t put them together to form a sentence)

First thing first: You have an innate ability to learn languages. As many as you want! You learned your first language easily and without stress. The problem is that most educational institutions don’t teach you the way you learned your first language. They start with grammar. You didn’t learn the grammar of your first language until you were in second grade. At that point you had already heard the language for seven years, you were able to communicate and you could put sentences together on your own. The reason you weren’t able to learn easily in high school or college was because most of their teaching techniques go against every law of language acquisition methodology I know. Because of my experience watching and using these techniques as a grade school and high school teacher, I know they don’t work. This is why, after 10 years of research, I created the Spanish on the Job and English on the Job programs; so that learners can understand and speak the relevant language they need immediately. I have watched people learning with my programs be able to converse within three months. I’m very proud of this, but I’m also frustrated that more people don’t know that they CAN learn languages easily.So please, when you meet me, please don’t tell me that you can’t learn languages. AARGHH! I know you can! If you’d like to check out the programs or to contact me, please go to our website: www.kammsworldwide.comI wish you great success! Stacey Kammerman CEO KAMMS WorldWidePlease give us feedback or questions in the comment section below and we will reply promptly. Thanks!