'foreign language ability' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it any time you need to refer to a person's ability to use a language that is not their native language. For example, "Dave has a great foreign language ability and is fluent in Spanish and French."
Foreign language ability is not required.
This implies that the recruitment process is not primarily based on foreign language ability.
These schools look at personal qualities and background, including socioeconomic status; first generation to attend college; community of origin; foreign language ability; leadership or community involvement; and, where permissible, race, ethnicity and gender.
More than half of UK employers were unhappy with UK graduates' foreign language abilities, while nearly half were disappointed in graduates' cultural awareness, according to a 2013 report by the CBI, a business organisation.
I urge forward-thinking employers to hire these talented immigrants, refugees and asylees because their international experience and foreign language abilities are a tremendous asset to the American workforce.
Four years later, while an officer with an Army transportation unit in Louisiana, he saw a notice seeking volunteers with foreign-language ability for special assignments.
It reveals that 62% of non-exporting companies looking for international opportunities regarded languages as a barrier to doing so, while 70% of exporters had no foreign-language ability in the countries in which they operate.
For those of us whose foreign-language abilities extend little beyond ordering a cerveza or croque monsieur, the polyglot is to be envied and admired.
Overall, no evidence for the attention getting ability of foreign language use in jobs ads was found.
Of the new case officers, 42percentt speak a foreign language with at least moderate ability, including about 4percentt each who speak the high-priority languages of Arabic or Chinese.
With a little exposure to a foreign language, they can keep this ability longer.
