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"The message sent by typing 'too' when it should be 'to' can literally be the difference between getting the nod or getting a no." - Here is a proofreading checklist for your résumé and cover letter.

Bilingual Jobs & Careers for Latinos - EmpleosCB.com - Grammar lessons all job seekers should know These days, human resources departments and hiring managers are flooded with résumés. They have to be narrowed down somehow, and grammatical errors are an easy way to eliminate applicants.

Bilingualism is not welcome in presidential candidates - A negative ad by Newt Gingrich against Mitt Romney concludes with a jab about the former Massachusetts governor speaking French, and Jon Huntsman, who has since left the race, faced criticism for dropping some Mandarin into a presidential debate. Some observers feel the attacks go too far and could backfire.

Jon Huntsman's Mandarin moments - Juana Summers American voters don’t always view the ability to speak another language as an asset in a candidate.

Is it true that US Americans are too monolingual? - Author Michael Erard writes in the New York Times opinion pages about the difficult task of deciphering how bilingual our culture is in America. The presumption is that people in this country have long expected others to learn English and have resisted learning a foreign language. As it turns out, the Census Bureau has found 20% of people speak another language at home, but even that statistic fails to account for all the multilingual Americans who speak another language somewhere other than home.

Are We Really Monolingual? It’s assumed that few Americans speak more than one language, compared with citizens of other nations — but is it true?

A new book, Babel No More by journalist Michael Erard, traces the history of people who can do just that: hyperpolyglots, people who speak 11 or more languages.

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