Foreigners Living in the UK.

It's a sad fact that most Brits living abroad do not learn their host country's language. I cannot categorically say that every ex pat I've met or 99% have learned their language or can hold conversation.
I see holidaymakers who don't try to learn just the tiniest bit. If its like learning a hard language then fine: learning ten phrases or whatever of Spanish isn't really breaking anyone's back. Same applies for English.
 
I think England would be a much nicer place if we moved the Daily Mail readers out.
 
I think everyone should have to speak in English in public. No speaking other languages in public so you call us English people.

It should be a criminal offence, with rewards given to those who tell on those who break that law.

Your in England - Speak English or GO Home

& I don't care if your a Muslim, That's just an excuse to to say Racist..all Muslims shout Racism when they don't get there own way.
 
I think everyone should have to speak in English in public. No speaking other languages in public so you call us English people.

It should be a criminal offence, with rewards given to those who tell on those who break that law.

Your in England - Speak English or GO Home

& I don't care if your a Muslim, That's just an excuse to to say Racist..all Muslims shout Racism when they don't get there own way.

The irony! :D

Would you extend this to penalising those who can't write proper english too?
 
I think everyone should have to speak in English in public. No speaking other languages in public so you call us English people.

It should be a criminal offence, with rewards given to those who tell on those who break that law.

Your in England - Speak English or GO Home

& I don't care if your a Muslim, That's just an excuse to to say Racist..all Muslims shout Racism when they don't get there own way.
Why could you possibly want it to be illegal to speak any language in public other than English? I can't think of any possible reasons at all other than being completely paranoid, completely nosey or a fascist.

The irony! :D

Would you extend this to penalising those who can't write proper english too?
:D :D
 
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Why could you possibly want it to be illegal to speak any language in public other than English? I can't think of any possible reasons at all other than being completely paranoid, completely nosey or a fascist.

:D :D

Because this England..So Speak, Write & BE English..This damn Government bows down to to many religions & to many people shouting racisam.

Its funny how when a white person shouts racism they are laughed at but a Muslim get everything they want.
 
It might be slightly annoying though if I went to move to say france then I wouldn't bother learning it, If I had young kids they'd obv. learn it at school but I'd just need to know the words for "Thanks" and "bye" lol.
 
I love the statistic quoting on OcUK backed up by the best evidence of all; thoughts on the brain :D

I felt like I was in another country quite a few times at Uni because some classes had all French/Chinese students that could barely understand a word of English - Why come to the lesson?

To have a rant at just foreigners is funny though because there are also quite a few that speak/spell better than us.
 
Because this England..So Speak, Write & BE English..
In a professional or educational environment, definitely.* But I asked you why two people talking in public should be forced by the law to speak English instead of any language that they would rather speak in.

*Unless, of course, it's part of that education or working environment.

This damn Government bows down to to many religions & to many people shouting racisam.

Its funny how when a white person shouts racism they are laughed at but a Muslim get everything they want.
I do agree that the government is far too obsessed with political correctness and treats the majority unfairly by favouring the minorities, but that's not a logical reason to make frankly nationalist (or even fascist) suggestions that it should be illegal to speak any language other than English in public. :o

While I'm here I feel the need to point out that this is the second post you've made about how it should be compulsory to speak and write in English, but at the same time have demonstrated terrible spelling and grammar. Not that I am a grammar-Nazi of any kind, I just find it ironic and pathetic coming from you.
 
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I would normally agree with you, but i'd be a hypocrit, as my parents both live in spain and neither have yet learnt to speak spanish.
 
To be fair, a lot of English people don't know how to speak english properly either.

/runs.

Nope, I agree with this. I don't speak English badly at all, but my friend here at uni from Serbia/Iran/someplace (I'm not sure where he's from, he said Serbia or something, but his driver's license says Iran as home country) is often correcting my English when talking on MSN, and sometimes when face to face. But then on the likes of MSN I'm much more lax with my English. :)

It does annoy me though that so many people don't try to learn the language before coming here. If only they ran the student tests on all immigrants...you have to score a certain level on an English test and my friend got something like 7 and the pass number is 6, and his English is very good. :)

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Because this England..So Speak, Write & BE English..This damn Government bows down to to many religions & to many people shouting racisam.

Its funny how when a white person shouts racism they are laughed at but a Muslim get everything they want.

What exactly entails "being" English exactly. AS for banning speaking another language in public, well done you single handedly killed billions of pounds generated by the tourist industry in this country. You wiped out thousands, maybe and probably into the hundreds of thousands of jobs in one fell swoop. Killed billions in tax which will have to be made up but the rest of the workforce. To create more jobs for all those who suddenly find themselves out of a job for your plan of sheer intolerance the government again will create thousands more completely useless paper pushing jobs paid for out of taxes, so a second massive tax bump all for a truly ridiculous idea that is simply nothing at all but racist.



I mean the single upside would be other countries would hopefully take up this plan of action too, I'm thinking specifically all those places chavs bundle to on holidays, hopefully we could see them all locked up in those countries.

On a more serious note, can you imagine the same thing happening, someone being fined or whatever else because they went on holiday and didn't know the full language before they touched down.

At the end of the day learned language at a young age is fairly natural, even if you learn multiple languages VERY young you would still have a dominant language and without thinking these are simply the words that come out when you think. I "think" in english, even if foreigners can speak english, they don't think in english. You can simply not change this, ever, suggesting we should or could, or suggesting its a awful thing is quite simply ridiculous.

There are dozens of reasons for wanting certain groups of people gone, freeloaders, benefit grabbing lazy idiots and the like and those would be valid reasons, be they foreign or home grown.
 
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