Not Fluent in English Nanny

[Anonymous]

We have a nanny who is not fluent in English. She is fluent in two other languages and one of those is our native language. She’s older and is a great caregiver and we trusted her worth our dd who needed medication administered multiple times a day and it’s been working out wonderfully.
Do take the advice of the pp and start getting some babysitting jobs to get to know families.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would not hire a nanny who is not fluent in English. I do not want the nanny to give the wrong amount of medication (teaspoon v. tablespoon) because they didn't understand the difference.

We have a fully bilingual nanny.

Op here I can understand the difference between teaspoon vs tablespoon.

[Anonymous]

You don’t need fluency, you just need to be able to speak conversational English which means you can have basic everyday conversations in English.

[Anonymous]

Op, I think you are a troll. Even if you don't speak English well, you should be able to punctuate the sentences a little more than you did. You left out periods and comas instead of bad spelling. Maybe you used a spellcheck, but you were too obvious with your lack of punctuation. Foreigners as myself, make word order and tense mistakes, not as many punctuation ones.
If you received a sucky education in your country, how do you know vs=versus? (The other poster does suggest v-versus).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op, I think you are a troll. Even if you don't speak English well, you should be able to punctuate the sentences a little more than you did. You left out periods and comas instead of bad spelling. Maybe you used a spellcheck, but you were too obvious with your lack of punctuation. Foreigners as myself, make word order and tense mistakes, not as many punctuation ones.
If you received a sucky education in your country, how do you know vs=versus? (The other poster does suggest v-versus).

Op here , being honest I don’t know what’s you are asking.
I think we use vs and we could use v. as well..
I just checked. I didn’t know about that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op, I think you are a troll. Even if you don't speak English well, you should be able to punctuate the sentences a little more than you did. You left out periods and comas instead of bad spelling. Maybe you used a spellcheck, but you were too obvious with your lack of punctuation. Foreigners as myself, make word order and tense mistakes, not as many punctuation ones.
If you received a sucky education in your country, how do you know vs=versus? (The other poster does suggest v-versus).

This is so rude....why are you working as nanny, when you think you are most educated one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would not hire a nanny who is not fluent in English. I do not want the nanny to give the wrong amount of medication (teaspoon v. tablespoon) because they didn't understand the difference.

We have a fully bilingual nanny.

Op here I can understand the difference between teaspoon vs tablespoon.

What are the abbreviations for each?

[Anonymous]

Op here tsb TB or Tbl

[Anonymous]

teaspoon: tsp, t.
tablespoon: tbl, T.

[Anonymous]

It’s not big deal we could google it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op, I think you are a troll. Even if you don't speak English well, you should be able to punctuate the sentences a little more than you did. You left out periods and comas instead of bad spelling. Maybe you used a spellcheck, but you were too obvious with your lack of punctuation. Foreigners as myself, make word order and tense mistakes, not as many punctuation ones.
If you received a sucky education in your country, how do you know vs=versus? (The other poster does suggest v-versus).

This is so rude....why are you working as nanny, when you think you are most educated one.

I am not a nanny. Where do I think/write I'm "most educated one"?

[Anonymous]

I agree with the previous poster that this business is all about references and referrals. Our nanny is not fluent in English, but she was recommended by a friend and that was more important to us than English. Plus, your native tongue could be an asset for some families. Good luck, OP!