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Article: Bilingual benefits; Those who master English find larger market, greater opportunities.(Brief Article)
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- Crain's Chicago Business
- Article date:
- May 27, 2002
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When Alejandrino Rodriguez went off to work for several meat-packing businesses in Chicago after emigrating from Mexico, he did not need to master the language of his new country.
His work required manual, rather than verbal, skills. In his Bridgeport home, his wife Josefina and two children also spoke Spanish.
But, as the children headed into white-collar jobs, they found that a verbal and written command of English was critical.
Daughter Carmen, who graduated from Northwestern University with degrees in political science and Hispanic studies and is taking graduate courses at the University of Chicago, is getting ready to open an advertising ...