A growing number of mobile home parks have an ever-increasing number of Hispanic residents. This has many park owners worried that they cannot adequately attend to their resident’s needs due to their inability to speak Spanish. However, modern technology has made making your park “bilingual” easier than ever.
Translation Software
A modern marvel, translation software allows you to type a letter in English and have the computer print it in Spanish. The computer automatically makes the translation. So you can write a notice to tenants to let their faucets drip in the winter in English, and you can automatically make the flip side of the notice in Spanish. Without learning any vocabulary, or how to conjugate a verb, you can effectively be fluent in Spanish – at least as far as writing is concerned.
And these translation software packages only cost about $100.
Cell-Phone Translations
Do you know anyone who speaks Spanish, who also owns a cell phone? Then you are as good as fluent. When a resident wants to talk to you, but does not speak English, you simply call the person who is fluent on their cell phone, and hand the phone to the customer. They tell your “translator” what they want, and then they hand the phone back to you and he translates it for you. You’ll find that this one arrangement will permanently end your concerns about communication.
And since you have such incredible efficiency of time, you can pay this “translator” a very small amount per month, and they still think it’s a win/win.
Conclusion
There is no reason to go back to junior college to brush up on foreign language, or listen to CDs in the car. Modern technology gives you the freedom to be fully bilingual without memorizing a word or learning a phrase. And it doesn’t cost much to have that capability.
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