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Would you learn Arabic or another language to help migrants integrate?
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Good idea or just some idiot saying ...
''look at me, look at what a wonderful human being I am''
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Good idea or just some idiot saying ...
''look at me, look at what a wonderful human being I am''
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Arguably, if more of the indigenous population spoke a language of a large immigrant population, then it might help integration: let's face it, swathes of German society are not going to become fluent speakers of Arabic, in all its many dialects, even if they take up this challenge. It's just a little bit of the Black Mountain coming to Mohammad, so to speak ...
Can't harm understanding or communication can it?
Can't harm understanding or communication can it?
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^^^^ See lots of earlier posts when I go on about having had to learn French to fit in comfortably(which I did, happily, and thought it a reasonable attitude) and explain that the French offer no translations of official documentation. Understanding it all is up to you. Incomers have a duty to fit in with the native society.
Actually I tried to do this when I worked at a garage and did my best to learn basic words in Polish, so I could communicate and connect with some of our workers. I carried a dictionary with me and struggled because it's a hard language to pronounce, but I got on well with my coworkers for attempting it.
I also signed up to a Gujarati class but a house move meant I didn't get to start it.
Similarly, my partner's family own a villa in Spain and the lovely couple that caretake for them try their best to speak English, even though the lady can't read or write, and we do our best to speak Spanish to them.
It's just courtesy to me to try and communicate, whatever the language.
I also signed up to a Gujarati class but a house move meant I didn't get to start it.
Similarly, my partner's family own a villa in Spain and the lovely couple that caretake for them try their best to speak English, even though the lady can't read or write, and we do our best to speak Spanish to them.
It's just courtesy to me to try and communicate, whatever the language.
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