Money Well Spent?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4303198/Police-Polish-lessons-break-barriers.html

/// Volunteer worker for Sussex Police Agnieszka Kornacka said: 'It is important to have this communication bridge within the local area to make sure that we, the Polish community and members of other Eastern European communities, are able to feel confident enough to report crime and talk to the Police. ///

Oh, so if one understands Polish all members of
other Eastern European communities, will not experience any difficulties?

[ladybirder]

I don't get this. If I was going to live in another country where a different language was the norm I would immediately start to learn the language of that country. In fact I did go to night school for that very purpose. Certainly would not expect the host country to pay for me.

[Peter Pedant]

Perhaps a better idea is not to let anyone into the country who cannot speak English, excluding those who are prepared to take English lessons at their own expense.

well in sweden - an employee will get swedish lessons and similarly in Holland ( no they dont get swedish lessons but Nederlands )

language tests in the good old EU interfered with free movement of people ...

I mean not even trump says that people have to speak english to enter the land of the free does he ? 40% texans are spanish first ....

[Peter Pedant]

I mean in 1945 my late father would conduct medical consultations with DPs ( displaced persons - mostly eastern europeans ) in German having been in a camp for five years whilst they enjoyed forced labour in the greater Reich for the same amount of time

I dont regard speaking foreign languages as that big a deal - altho clearly some ABers do - Naomi for example

[Samjenko]

Yeah peter, funnily enough we give English lessons to Polish chaps in work. It kind of helps. Not quite the same thing, is it?

[baza]

Will we have to learn Cornish to buy a pasty in Greggs.

[Samjenko]

If only these Swedish police had learned some N.African/Arab dialects. With a smattering of Urdu, oh and of course the obligatory Pashto.



They may have realised why they were being assaulted.

[cassa333]

No.

This is the UK and imigrants should learn English. That is what integration is all about.

Regardless of what country you come to the UK from you should learn English. Both written and spoken.

[cassa333]

Wacker1111, I am assuming that is tongue in cheek. No one is going to be sent packing at the moment and indeed probably not in the future either.

[youngmafbog]

Total joke.

We speak English here, or Scottish north of the border. They should learn one of those.

And for those who wine on about ex-pats I think you will find most other countries are not so accommodating as we are

[anotheoldgit]

Islay

/// I could not speak English when I arrived in the UK, going by your rules I would be barred then AOG - ///

Where have I suggested that, but that doesn't matter to you you make it up as you go along.

But what I did suggest that they should be barred unless they are prepared to take English lessons at their own expense.

Obviously if you were a child when you came here that would not apply, but it would to your parents if they were the ones who brought you here.

/// how is that fair when ex-pats go and live in other countries without speaking the languages. ///

They have to pay for their own language lessons and interpreters.

[anotheoldgit]

Peter Pedant

/// well in sweden - an employee will get swedish lessons and similarly in Holland ( no they dont get swedish lessons but Nederlands ) ///

The word you are looking for is 'Dutch'.

No I didn't say Double Dutch, just Dutch.