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  • If you're already dreaming in English, I mean it's like you're already there.

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  • Definitely in science you find

  • all the documentation - books, conferences,

  • proceedings and all the literature out there is mainly in English.

  • All the top journals are English-speaking journals or English written journals

  • or the communication at international top meetings are in English.

  • The core information exchange platform is English.

  • If you want to find out what the top

  • scientists in the world are doing, you need to know English.

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  • I think Fraunhofer is well known for its development of the mp3 technology and

  • disease control in agriculture, the application of nanotechnology and we're using

  • bio-computing to do data analysis of large data sets.

  • At Fraunhofer, English is a must.

  • You're guaranteed to have to communicate with people in English

  • almost on a daily basis.

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  • We had an employee who we would really like to hire but his English proficiency

  • isn't very good and he needs to work on a project which involves European partners.

  • I have a lot of stories of people that either A) don't even dare to apply for jobs or

  • B) they apply for jobs but they don't get them because they

  • can't even go through an interview.

  • There are issues about communications

  • based on many people's inability to be fluent in English.

  • We definitely need English skills here.

  • English has really helped me to communicate with people not only

  • in Germany and also here in Chile, but with people from different backgrounds.

  • Learning English has granted me the opportunity to work in a more innovative, uh, environment.

  • Without English it would be impossible to play any role on

  • international collaborations like the one which we have in here in Chile.

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If you're already dreaming in English, I mean it's like you're already there.

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