Philippines Named Best Country In Business English Proficiency
There are some people even some foreigners who think that Filipinos are not that good in speaking English. Some even mock the ways Filipinos use the English language, well guess what? They are wrong. In a recent study by GlobalEnglish Corpoaration, it named the Philippines as the world’s best country in business English proficiently beating even the United States.
GlobalEnglish released the results of its annual Business English Index (BEI), the only index that measures business English proficiency in the workplace.
Headquartered in Brisbane, California, GlobalEnglish works with multinational companies – including Cisco, Procter and Gamble, HSBC, Phzer – to support performance in business English across the workforce around the world. GlobalEnglish also noted that a country’s business English capability is an indicator of its economic growth and business success.
For 2012, the results showed that from 76 represented countries worldwide, only the Philippines attained a score above 7.0, getting a score above 7.o means “a BEI level within range of a high proficiency that indicates an ability to take an active role in business discussions and perform relatively complex tasks.”
The Philippines just recently become the top outsourcing destination in terms of call centers and other business process outsourcing services. “This is particularly interesting because the Philippines, a country with one-tenth of the population of India, recently overtook India as a hub for call centers. Over 400,000 Filipinos are now employed in call centers, roughly 50,000 more than in India,” the study said.
“It is not surprising that both the Philippines and Norway—the only two countries in the top five in both 2011 and 2012—are improving their economies, based on the latest GDP data from the World Bank,” it added.
Rest of the world ranked beginner and basic level. The majority of global workers (60.5 percent) from the represented countries scored between a 4.0 and 7.0, below an intermediate level, indicating an inability to take an active role in business discussions or perform relatively complex tasks such as presentation development and customer or partner negotiations, it added.
GlobalEnglish stressed that the 2012 BEI which showed a lack of business English proficiency is threatening the productivity of companies, industries and country-specific economies this year.
“Poor Business English skills are bad for global businesses and this year’s Business English Index suggests that many companies will be hard-pressed to achieve their desired performance goals during 2012,” said Tom Kahl, GlobalEnglish President.
This study is a clear affirmation to the world class talent of Filipino Global Workers and in this case it’s the world best. So the next time a foreigner makes a mockery about how a Filipino speaks English, you can print the study mentioned here, roll it and shoved it up his ass.
The Top 10 Best Countries For Business English Proficiency based on GlobalEnglish’s 2012 BEI:
1. Philippines
2. Norway
3. Serbia
4. Slovenia
5. Australia
6. Malaysia
7. India
8. Lithuania
9. Singapore
10. Canada
