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Originally Posted by DocDutch
Xaccers with that 1 I can even make it be sound worse. same job just 1 person English the other Dutch the person that takes the Dutch and English calls will be on 3k more at least then just the English person.
but then thats only in the IT sector dont know if that counts for any others
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At my last company, they tried (and failed) to expand into Europe so required German speakers, which they got 2 of.
Both (one German and lovely, one English and a lazy cow, but that's just them) were paid several grand more than non-German speakers because of their extra skills.
It's just like someone with a degree or MCSE getting paid more than someone without even though they're doing the same job.
To me, that's fine, why shouldn't someone be rewarded for the extra skills and qualifications they have?
Like I said, if the company were only employing people of one nationality, despite the language skills of any other candidates, then that would be illegal.
They're not doing that though, so what they're doing is fine, they have a requirement, the person reported wasn't able to satisfy that requirement, and so didn't get the job.
Talking of Dutch, we had a guy at uni who was doing his PhD over here. He still had his Dutch accent, but whenever he went home, fellow Dutchmen would comment on how good his Dutch was for an Englishman, not believing he was actually Dutch
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I think babelfish needs to change the words around a bit then you are close to it 
he's in my book an excellent coach especially since the dutch youth team was missing some key players.
