First off, I'm American. So my answer to the monolingual thing was tongue in cheek. :)
My language story: Before I moved to Israel the first time, I was talking on IRC to another software developer who lives in Israel. We were chatting in Portuguese. I was saying that I needed to work on my Hebrew, because I basically only knew how to sound out things in the Siddur, but couldn't really carry on a conversation so much back then.
The guy I was talking to said, "Don't worry about learning Hebrew. You'd better learn English. That's the language you need if you want to work in anything high tech here."
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"Better learn English"
Date: 2009-06-20 03:40 am (UTC)My language story:
Before I moved to Israel the first time, I was talking on IRC to another software developer who lives in Israel. We were chatting in Portuguese. I was saying that I needed to work on my Hebrew, because I basically only knew how to sound out things in the Siddur, but couldn't really carry on a conversation so much back then.
The guy I was talking to said, "Don't worry about learning Hebrew. You'd better learn English. That's the language you need if you want to work in anything high tech here."
Re: "Better learn English"
Date: 2009-06-20 04:07 am (UTC)Re: "Better learn English"
Date: 2009-06-20 04:33 am (UTC)