Room 229: DIVERSITY IN THE WORKPLACE- BLOG 8

Language barriers I find are a big part of diversity. I just finished my student Development class the Saturday before last, there was a Portuguese girl at my table and in a 9 hr class I knew we were gonna have to work together and talk. So I started to talk to her and she had a surprisingly good English, just with a really hard accent. At first it was hard to talk to here and understand what she was saying but toward the end of the class we had to take a exam and we could talk throughout my table. I was glad that I decided to talk to her and hang out during the class rather than clustering with other people in the class who would be easier to relate to. So when the Exam rolled around I had already been talking to her, I could understand her accent in her English and it really made the group exam easier than if I would have just started talking to her towards the end.