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Who can keep right to speak its own language in UK [22]
Oct 21, 09, 23:33 - Thread attached on merging:
Who sent this to off topic? Who can keep right to speak its own language in UKare mods Brits?
good question :)
recently I was watching BBC program about Welsh and other one about history of black people in UK
I got an impression that everybody who have a right to live here can speak English and can keep native language as well. Welsh have a right to speak its own language cos they are from Britain, Indians can speak Punjabi, Pakistanis and Bangladeshi can communicate in theirs languages as well cos they are part of old good Commonwealth, Africans can keep their Nigerian languages cos they are ex slave country which English impose on them long time ago and so on.
But ... if we can not get one language alike lingua franca we wont be able to communicate or maybe that would stir a racial/culture conflicts. I am a bit confused.
Poles are completely off that English history stuff, we are the first offspring of EU new regulations with lesser incomes that's we migrate here. Some of us are a part of good old 2nd Polish Republic who fought during WW2, but not too many of them compare to a new wave after 2004.
Any thought on the subject?
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mods , give me a short explanation why this thread is not conected to polish case?
What I am trying to do is to point a problem , which Poles have to take for consideration when they live in UK and try to fit in
If this thread becomes about the Polish language in the UK it will be moved back, currently it's about every other language and not Polish.good question :)
recently I was watching BBC program about Welsh and other one about history of black people in UK
I got an impression that everybody who have a right to live here can speak English and can keep native language as well. Welsh have a right to speak its own language cos they are from Britain, Indians can speak Punjabi, Pakistanis and Bangladeshi can communicate in theirs languages as well cos they are part of old good Commonwealth, Africans can keep their Nigerian languages cos they are ex slave country which English impose on them long time ago and so on.
But ... if we can not get one language alike lingua franca we wont be able to communicate or maybe that would stir a racial/culture conflicts. I am a bit confused.
Poles are completely off that English history stuff, we are the first offspring of EU new regulations with lesser incomes that's we migrate here. Some of us are a part of good old 2nd Polish Republic who fought during WW2, but not too many of them compare to a new wave after 2004.
Any thought on the subject?
