Re:Tell HN: booking.com is looking for 40+ Perl programmers ...
by nl on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @06:00PM
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I was recently in The Netherlands, and was surprised to find that the taxi drivers spoke better English than they do in Sydney.
(In Sydney a lot of taxis are driven by recent immigrants who's English is sometimes less-than-ideal, despite some kind of mandatory-English requirement. If they have a mandatory English requirement in The Netherlands for taxi drivers then the bar must be a lot higher than in Australia!)
(In Sydney a lot of taxis are driven by recent immigrants who's English is sometimes less-than-ideal, despite some kind of mandatory-English requirement. If they have a mandatory English requirement in The Netherlands for taxi drivers then the bar must be a lot higher than in Australia!)