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How To Make Yourself Irresistible to Cruise Line Employers!

[ Posted April 1st, 2008 ]

A proven way of becoming irresistible to any cruise line employer is to become reasonably competent in a second language. Cruise ships visit many different countries and attract passengers of all nationalities, so the demand for crewmembers with foreign language skills has never been greater.

Now before you groan in just a moment I’m going to show you exactly how anyone can become competent in a second language within a very short period of time by using specific speed learning techniques - even if you flunked languages at school, like me!

The universal language onboard is English and it’s likely to stay like this for a while yet. But the demand for crew who understand the basics in one of the following languages is increasing:

Spanish

French

German

Italian

Now "understanding the basics" of a second language, doesn’t mean being FLUENT! If you can ‘get by’ and perhaps make a foreign passengers’ life easier by assisting them in some way; whether that’s offering directions, telling them the price of an item or taking an order at the bar, then you’re an asset to a cruise line employer.

Right, here’s a quick example using what’s called a ‘Pattern Technique’. This technique alone will give you instant access to 253 really useful words:

Almost all English words that end with IC can be made into Spanish by changing IC to ICO.

English	Spanish
Plastic	Plástico
Traffic	Tráfico
Tropic	Trópico
Allergic	Alérgico

All you need to do is learn some simple rules (patterns) like this one, in order to translate English words into Spanish and you have an instant vocabulary of 1000’s of Spanish words that you didn’t realize you had.

That makes you pretty competent in my book! And there are lots of other easy-to-learn techniques like this too.

Okay, this is not a language lesson, but you get the idea. If you have even a basic understanding of a second language such as Spanish, French, Italian or German then it can put you in a very advantageous position when it comes to getting hired by a cruise line company, because having a sentence like "Spanish speaking skills" on your resume will immediately make you stand out from the vast majority of cruise ship job seekers.

We have just added a whole course to http://www.WorkOnCruiseShips.com called Speed Spanish that will make anyone a competent Spanish speaker in a very short period of time by using techniques like the one I have just shared. This course normally sells for $27.00 - but it’s completely free to members ;-0)

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Neil Maxwell-Keys
Author - "Get a Cruise Ship Job!"
Founder - www.WorkOnCruiseShips.com