At Little Miss Mau’s school, we had a meeting with all the parents.
The teacher said something like, “Don’t be concerned if your kids come home speaking languages you’ve never heard before. We’re a very international school.”
And I sat there thinking: wait, what?
Why is this a thing? Why are we having a discussion about this? Parents are actually worried their kid will learn too many languages and get confused?
Maybe it’s because I’m from the US, my wife is Ukrainian, and we’ve lived in a bunch of different countries. Little Miss Mau has been hearing different languages since day one.
She speaks English, Ukrainian, Polish, and Russian, though the Russian mostly comes out with her grandparents. And now she’s dabbling in Spanish and Portuguese.
For kids, it’s just that simple.
But get this:
Every language makes the next one easier. Growing up with Ukrainian made Polish easy, and Czech or Slovak would be easy too. Once she has Spanish and Portuguese down, French and Italian won’t be much of a stretch.
The skills stack.
Here’s the thing:
That’s exactly how the job market works too, and it’s what most job seekers get wrong. They look at a job post with ten skills, panic because they don’t have all ten, and either don’t apply or try to fake it.
The truth is this:
Companies rarely tell you what they’re actually looking for. There’s one thing hiring managers care about more than whether you already have the skills, and almost nobody shows it on their resume.
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