ienso: I have been working with people from Chile and very few use accents. If we do the same in Spain, would that be professional?
Yeap, I meant tough...I made common spelling mistakes as most native speakers...spell check is one of the best inventions ever! :XX:
And nope, nobody has told me that before. Actually, nobody thinks I am a foreigner when I communicate just by e-mails...when they talk to me (face to face or on the phone), they know I am from somewhere in Europe but they can not pinpoint exactly which country. Some ask if I'm from Germany ::, others from Sweden :
) people whose English knowledge could be thought as questianable.: I watch out for common words in both languages and the freaking vowels..arggghhh!No problem at all, but we have to recognise that Iberian grammar is richer and the tone while speaking is the same as writing. I wonder how Argentinean writers manage to place the accents over the right character...
ienso: ...I miccionan I've found most South Americans are quite zealot about Spanish but it's not uncommon for their "masses" to butcher it..
They do recommend (in business school and even HR and the usual presentation skills courses) not to use phrasal verbs in business. Most of them sound informal and can cause misunderstanding from a "global" audience pov (p verbs are not even the same for American English and British English). Except for the obvious ones such as speak up or pick up or show up...it's better to not confuse (or mess up
I have no problems with v and b or j and y, I lived in The Netherlands where the v is pretty much an "f". Vowels freak me out :
perhaps, depends on individual's education level....?
