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dulouz
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 Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 7:39 pm Post subject: More evidence Koreans really have a hard time with English |
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Language Barrier Called Health Hazard in E.R.
By NINA BERNSTEIN
Published: April 21, 2005
hen a Spanish-speaking hospital receptionist refused to interpret during her lunch hour, doctors at St. Vincent's Staten Island Hospital turned to a 7-year-old child to tell their patient, an injured construction worker, that he needed an emergency amputation.
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Though more than 150 tongues are now spoken in New York, nearly all the problems highlighted in the complaint concern Spanish and Korean. A survey conducted at Flushing Hospital by Korean Community Services of Metropolitan New York, for example, showed that 40 percent of patients with limited English reported that they had received no interpreter services, and 47 percent reported that the language assistance provided was inadequate. A follow-up late last year found no improvement, the complaint said.
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SuperHero
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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| What does this have to do with KOreans? |
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dulouz
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Korean immigrants = Koreans. Do you see the connection? These are even pople with a USA affinity. Out of a 150 languages, two languages presented the most problems. Spanish and Korea. |
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SuperHero
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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| dulouz wrote: |
| Korean immigrants = Koreans. Do you see the connection? These are even pople with a USA affinity. Out of a 150 languages, two languages presented the most problems. Spanish and Korea. |
I didn't read the article because the quote you provided is about spanish speakers, hence no relevance. |
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dulouz
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| Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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| When I cut and paste, I try to pick out the most relevant. This was the title/topic paragraph but it did not mention Koreans in any way. I wanted it to but it didn't. None the less, the facts were further in the article. |
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jajdude
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 10:01 am Post subject: |
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| I'm surprised about Spanish being a problem. I would have guessed many Spanish speakers would be there, and many with good English. |
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skookum
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 5:02 am Post subject: Ethnicity in the city |
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| I'm surprised about Spanish being a problem. I would have guessed many Spanish speakers would be there, and many with good English. |
It would be that there are so many Spanish-speaking folks in NYC - even if many speak English, many don't. And Latinos from specific countries tend to flock together in neighborhoods - some countries having less exposure to English than others.
But one wonders where the Koreans rank in size of ethnic group in NYC. |
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rapier
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 4:41 am Post subject: |
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| Obviously there is something about Koreans, or their language that just doesn't relate well to any of the others. |
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