Meet Leticia Marquez.

She Works as a financial manager for a

Swedish automotive Company in Curitiba, Brazil, where she was
born and raised. She is single and lives with her parents. I use
English everyday, Ms. Marques says. We use it in most of our emails and meetings and for calls to Sweden, the U.S. and France. In
her free time, she likes to watch DVDs in English. It is good for my
pronunciation, she says.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------This is Yuan Yong Jing, his wife, Zheng Yang, and their son, Yuan
Bao. They live in Beijing, China. Mr. Yuan, a manager, is originally
from Weihai, a small seaside city in Shandong Province. His wife is a
teacher, and their son is a middle-school student. Our company
provides tour guides to foreign to foreign businesspeople who visit
China, so English is very important for my work, he says. At home,
Mr. Yuan enjoys watching English-language TV and listening to
English-language radio.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Meet Marcus Stolze, an information technology researcher. Mr.
Stolze lives with his wife Thrse, and children, Lena and Jan, in
Rti, a small town in Switzerland. Mr. Stolze is originally from
Brilon, Germany. Thrse is an English teacher and speaks four
languages. Their children are also multilingual. At work, we use
English a lot because we communicate with people who speak
many different languages, he says. Also, most good books on
computing are in English, he adds.