Service and quality-control initiatives include more English-Spanish training for store workers, mystery shoppers assigned to put pleasant service to the test, and an "e-learning" program to update employees on new products and services more quickly.
In the same year, a market-research company, Cultural Access, found that young Latinos watched twice as much English-language as Spanish-language television.
Those supporting bilingual education argue that the state's 162, 000 Spanish-speaking pupils achieve more if taught through their first language and that attending an all-English schools would put Spanish-speakers at an immediate disadvantage.
Some sentences may be entirely in English, apart from one phrase in Spanish - or completely in Spanish, with the English connector "so" in the middle.
Last week, the Bush campaign rolled out its first ads -- in English and in Spanish.
He takes a full boat of courses, a few AP classes and pre-calculus, English and Spanish II.
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For a man who has managed in the top-flight of English and Spanish football, taking over a club at the bottom of the Nationwide Conference might have seemed like one job too far.
The WDL functions in seven languages - Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish - and includes content in more than forty languages.
Manzano posted messages on Twitter throughout the competition -- in Spanish and English.
He's the insider-outsider who represents the synthesis of the much admired elegant skill-based Spanish soccer culture and the hardscrabble, passionate English lower-league ethos.
In 1999 Slim acquired a majority stake in TracFone, based in Florida, which sells prepaid wireless service to 1.5 million Spanish- and English-speaking customers.
They studied bilingual programs in the Houston Independent School District and found that native-Spanish speakers were at or above grade level in English and Spanish in first grade through fifth grade.
In a few years, you might be able to speak Spanish, French and English--and all at the same time.
He has also looked after his body well, moving from the punishing, hectic pace of the English Premiership to the physically less-demanding Spanish league four years ago.
And foreign-born and Spanish-dominant Latinos trail not only whites but also native and English-speaking Latinos.
"He speaks German, Dutch, Spanish and English, " co-owner and breeder Mieke Cooijmans offered.
She cautions against playing tricks on customers, like getting rid of an angry English-speaking caller by transferring him to a Spanish-speaking operator, because that worker will be caught.
The company would have 9, 000 employees and would have locations in about 20 countries around the world, including China, India, all major English-speaking countries and many countries in the Spanish-speaking world.
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Moreover, the polyglot Mr Strauss-Kahn, fluent in German, English and Spanish, and with a (third) wife, Anne Sinclair, who until 1997 had her own political chat-show on television, was the perfect man to smooth-talk journalists and placate suspicious foreigners.
The TOP GUN Blu-ray 3D and Blu-ray are each presented in 1080p high definition with English 5.1 Dolby TrueHD, English 6.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, French 5.1 Dolby Digital and Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital with English, English SDH, French, Spanish and Portuguese subtitles.
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Almost one in four pupils in Arizona speaks a language other than English at home - and a large majority of these are Spanish speakers.
Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac will be available to the general public on September 4 in English, German-, French-, Italian-, Spanish-, Russian-, Japanese-, Chinese-, Korean-, Czech-, Polish- and Portuguese-language versions.
So are churlish fans: last week Spanish ones hurled racist insults at black English soccer-players.
CareZone will launch initially in English, with a Spanish language version in the next 30-60 days.
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The book, called Shorts in English and Cortos in Spanish, is a collection of one-to-three page essays about the advertising and communications business as well as musings on nationality, culture, values and human relationships.
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When Randy McDuff, one of the Warren Buffetts Next Door, vacationed in Cancun this winter he walked past a K-6 elementary school advertising classes in Spanish, English, and Mandarin and it got him wondering why Mandarin?
It has developed a handy pocket-sized gadget that translates English phrases into French, German or Spanish.
Spanish is by far the most popular non-English language spoken at home with roughly 34 million speakers nationwide.
The tablet will come pre-loaded with 200 apps (100 in English and 100 in Spanish) and 200 books (also 100 English, 100 Spanish), including selections from content partners like Sesame Street and Oxford University Press.
He lobbied for the company, which spends 5% of sales on ads and marketing, to replace print ads that had simple shots of bikes and ad chatter in "weird Euro English" with more eye-catching pictures of Saunier Duval, the Spanish pro cycling team Scott Sports cosponsors.
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