Originally Posted by Lon More
No, but a little helps. Outside work you'll be living in the local community and an attempt to speak the language works wonders with the locals even though 99% speak English. Of course many of the Germans live in Germany still and a lot of the Francophones in Belgium.
And although it shouldn't be done, a lot of co-ordination with adjacent/subjacent units is done in another language.
Good luck to you all - and if you get through, don't forget to be nice to your training officer and supervisor - lots of coffee helps
Lon More, are you based at Eurocontrol? I have just been accepted and am due to start at IANS in July. Would be good to get an insight from someone who has experience of it all!
(Oh and I did notice the coffee stations every 10m or so in the MUAC building
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