800,000 People Cannot Speak English.....

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2022783/1-million-people-cant-speak-english-uk?int_source=nba

...a relief I thought it was millions.

[THECORBYLOON]

From your link, "Up to 1.4 % — 137,876 people — are unable to speak the language at all."

[douglas9401]

You do know what you've done there, don't you? 😆

[gulliver1]

And one of those is the OP.

[ToraToraTora]

13:10 OK me old china you gave me a Turkish with that one!

[Electrochem]

There are a lot of people who can't write it either!

 

[wolf63]

I think the reporter may be one of them, his spelling is worse than mine.

"Meanwhile, 38.4% say they can speak it competently. However, 8.6% — ammounting to 794,332 people — “cannot speak English well”, reports The Sun."

 

 

[gulliver1]

Electrochem 16.28 There are a lot of people who can read it or understand it either.

[piggynose]

and I think most of them live in London, innit ?

[jourdain2]

I suspect that it is worse than the figures given.  In 2001, when I had a cover lesson for needlework in my Bradford Comprehensive school - I was besieged by 12 yr-old girls (born and educated in UK) demanding 'pins and string'......... they meant needles and thread. I can't think that the situation will have improved.

[Peter Pedant]

3:10 OK me old china you gave me a Turkish with that one!

o god another dam fool foo dang  a lang question

rubbish from beginning to end

[Peter Pedant]

2001 I was besieged by 12 yr-old girls (born and educated in UK) demanding 'pins and string'.........  needles and thread.

I can't think that the situation will have improved.

Yes it has -it was realised that the fathers were limiting social intecourse of their daughter ( and wives) by limiting their language.  - as a  means of social control

I got  involved when it turned out 8 y olds were transalting for their mothers..... at a gynae clinic....

even the most trashy t-i-c question posed by the usual jokesters, can have a serious side

[Cloverjo]

I'd love to know how many British ex-pats in Spain and Portugal speak the local language. I would guess not many.