Several of the English speaking supervisors and managers of this largely Portuguese-speaking workforce expressed interest in learning Portuguese so they could communicate more effectively. So employee development manager Joy McGuirl-Hadley asked the Department of Portuguese at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth to provide a conversational Portuguese training program at the Quaker Learning Center in Fall River. In mid-January two UMass Dartmouth instructors began teaching conversational Portuguese at Quaker. The course is one semester long or 15 weeks.
Quaker recognizes that they can build a better team when everyone speaks the same language.
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