After reading a few threads, I wanted to introduce myself to this community. I look forward to sharing ideas with other forum members to help my agents with their English and career development.
Best regards,
Richard,welcome, I understand that Costa Rica ,surprisingly has a what? 99% literacy rate?
How would you rate the english comprehension of many of your employees?
You have asked a good question.Since Costa Rica does not have a standing army, they have made great investments is education.The literacy rate is around 95% and my agents speak English very well.I have been amazed by their level of grammar and choice vocabulary. An accent is tough to get rid of but they seem to manage to communicate well enough to be understood and to receive the occasional compliment.
Though not to expect any solemn gratitude for US Coalition expenditures & sacrifice, you should naturally consider yourself quite welcome for our consummate protection against Marxist-Leninist encroachments & globally sponsored terror, and try not to act so very surprised if your own national legislature eventually agrees to invest in that one standing army after all, even if only to prevent another Soviet Union, Marine barracks Beirut, Maoist China, Madrid train catastrophe, Fidelist Cuba, Munich Olympics, North Korea, WTC 9/11, communist SE Asia etc.—still with all those learned books and so much acquired literacy in your blessed paradise, I can now take maximum comfort in the otherwise disturbing revelation that you actually know what’s better for the rest of us, however, the Army stays!
There is always an open invitation for those that have the desire to see this beautiful country. The flight may be expensive. Once you are here, the costs are 1/3 of the states.
It would be even cheaper if you bought the weary lobster a 50c beer on its overland migratory trek from the Caribbean to the Pacific, wait for it to get drunk (very little beer required to do this with the average lobster), then eat the critter, finish off the beer and start chatting to the next passing lobster !
Richard, my major at Arizona State University was Latin American Studies. My formal studies ended almost 40 years ago, but as I recall Costa Rica is perhaps the most democratic nation in Latin America and has never suffered a violent change of government. I believe that this is because the original European settlers were not conquistadores, but were agrarian. Is this correct?
Hi DJF - by clicking on Richard’s profile you will see that he hasn’t looked in since 4th of August - but he runs a call centre, his number and email is up there and Skype is cheap ! I’ll bet he has some interesting stories so if you don’t want to call, let me know and I will put on a suit and see if his call centre can answer impromptu questions about conquistadores v agrarians…...better hope that El Bandito doesn’t get in first and confuse the heck out of them, he can’t decide whether he is Ghengis Khan or Montezuma….
From the earlier entries it can be deduced that instead of having a standing army, Costa Rica has sitting operators, working in call centres and talking English, so I’m inclined to the agrarian.
