this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2023
108 points (89.7% liked)

Asklemmy

44162 readers
1504 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy ๐Ÿ”

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I work for the Federal Government of Canada, and for reasons that are hopefully obvious, it's important that they are able to have a pipeline that teaches French to people over the age of 25 in about a year. It's not as simple as just watching media though. The French training for public servants starting at 0 French is a full-time job. People literally disappear from their jobs for a year or more in order to learn French.

[โ€“] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a way to access this as a fellow Federal employee (dont wanna elaborate over here)

[โ€“] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Ask your manager. Different departments have different amounts of training available. Also look into the CSPS French training.

At my department, there is also in-house part-time training. It just varies a lot from department to department.

The full-time training I mentioned is usually offered to people who are lined up for a manager/director job since there's the baguette-glass-ceiling

[โ€“] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It probably would be a good idea not to publicly identify as a goc worker in a social media forum.

[โ€“] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

We're allowed to. We just can't claim to speak for the government.