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Ski instructors set to enjoy enhanced job prospects in America

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Prospective new US immigration law - the Senate immigration bill - offers bilingual/multi-lingual ski instructors improved visa opportunities ...

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http://www.islandpacket.com/2013/07/15/2576080/inside-the-immigration-bill-details.html

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Pages 1037-38 describe how they could have an easier time entering and working in the U.S. under a visa program normally reserved for athletes and entertainers and allows them to stay in the country for up to 10 years.

Dave Byrd, who specializes in immigration issues for the National Ski Areas Association, said the multilingual foreign instructors are magnets attracting skiers from all over the world. The visitors might prefer lessons in their native tongue.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Sounds good, anyone know when this might actually happen? I've been considering marrying an american to get to Aspen but this might be the easier option.
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
You're doing it wrong.

You get to Aspen and then marry an American wink
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Mike Pow, I thought the Cougar in Aspen Extreme was supposed to be a Brit.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Unlike Sasquatch, there's more than one Wink
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Interesting to see how many moni-lingual Brits will make the effort to learn a second language - the bar for linguistic ability in the second language will probably be set quite high. Japanese would presumably be a good one - and Mandarin? Can't imagine very many French or Austrian skiers go to N America.
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Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
I'm a bilingual instructor.

English and American wink
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 After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
After all it is free Go on u know u want to!
pam w wrote:
Interesting to see how many moni-lingual Brits will make the effort to learn a second language - the bar for linguistic ability in the second language will probably be set quite high. Japanese would presumably be a good one - and Mandarin? Can't imagine very many French or Austrian skiers go to N America.


More French than you'd think but the money languages are Spanish (which lots of Americans now speak) or Portugese I'd think. Japanese more prevalent in Canada than US for some reason from my observation.
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Japanese companies bought into Canada in the 80s and 90s and the tour operators brought Japanese holidaymakers.

They've stayed steady.
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fatbob wrote:
pam w wrote:
Interesting to see how many moni-lingual Brits will make the effort to learn a second language - the bar for linguistic ability in the second language will probably be set quite high. Japanese would presumably be a good one - and Mandarin? Can't imagine very many French or Austrian skiers go to N America.


More French than you'd think but the money languages are Spanish (which lots of Americans now speak) or Portugese I'd think. Japanese more prevalent in Canada than US for some reason from my observation.


For sure, I've heard some resorts in the States will make visas happen for Portuguese speakers already. Almost all my Brazilian clients here in Chile ski in Snowmass in the Winter.
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Mike Pow wrote:
You're doing it wrong.

You get to Aspen and then marry an American wink


Haha, my roommate here just did his first season in Aspen, he said it was pretty much exactly the same as Aspen Extreme, I can't wait for the visas to get sorted out!
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Ah yes, Portuguese of course - I thought of Spanish but there are so many Spanish speakers it didn't seem likely to be a selling point. Portuguese is (I am assured by friends who are learning it) much harder for an English speaker to learn than Spanish.
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So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
pam w, Brazilian Portuguese is a 'little' easier to learn with than the native as the speech pattern in Brazil is slower and demonstrates verbal punctuation . . . I can remember my first time in Portugal and as far as I could tell it was Polish spoken backwards.
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