'Brits should learn Polish or Urdu to help encourage integration', says Cambridge linguistics profes

[wvwvw]

Nowadays with the internet and all there is less motivation for immigrants to integrate.

A Pakistani or a Pole or a Greek can communicate with his family in his home country, listen to radio and watch tv channels in his own language and translate texts with google translate.

[Ülev]

Nowadays with the internet and all there is less motivation for immigrants to integrate.

A Pakistani or a Pole or a Greek can communicate with his family in his home country, listen to radio and watch tv channels in his own language and translate texts with google translate.

meh, I always use bing translate, lol http://www.bing.com/translator

[Dandelion]

They should learn Hindi to spite the Pakistani. Learning a language is never a bad idea. Of course, this weird proposal is all for attention. If one genuinely clashes with a culture it's often not out of blind bigotry. It wouldn't aid integration that much I'm afraid. But sure, it doesn't harm to learn Polish or Urdu.

[Dandelion]

Poland is a relatively big country in Europe so why not learn a Slavic language like Polish instead of say German or Spanish.

German is a language spoken by a country full of corrupt politicians anyway.

[Mingle]

They should learn Hindi to spite the Pakistani. Meh, learning a language is never a bad idea and English dominates. Of course, it's all for attention. If one genuinely clashes with a culture it's often not out of blind bigotry.

I know you're joking but learning Hindi and learning Urdu is the same thing, the differences in Hindi and Urdu are similar to the differences in Serbian and Croatian. Also, most Pakistanis speak Punjabi.

[Dandelion]

I know you're joking but learning Hindi and learning Urdu is the same thing, the differences in Hindi and Urdu are similar to the differences in Serbian and Croatian. Also, most Pakistanis speak Punjabi.

Exactly my point. Urdu-speaking Pakistani all watch cheesy Bollywood films, but I assume it's spoken differently so it would still spite them a bit.

[Mingle]

Nowadays with the internet and all there is less motivation for immigrants to integrate.

A Pakistani or a Pole or a Greek can communicate with his family in his home country, listen to radio and watch tv channels in his own language and translate texts with google translate.

It depends on the situation of the family. Its very rare for someone to be raised in USA and not know English. The only people I met that didn't speak English were some Hispanics and Chinese that were recent migrants (maybe some were illegal) and didn't get educated in the US.

[Mingle]

Poland is a relatively big country in Europe so why not learn a Slavic language like Polish instead of say German or Spanish.

They learn German or Spanish or French because those countries are attractive in terms of either finding a job or going for vacation since those countries are pretty developed and close by. They have no incentive to learn non-Western languages.

[Al-Meksiki]

The average brit learn Polish? Pfft, good luck with that

[Dandelion]

The average brit learn Polish? Pfft, good luck with that

Emphasis on Brit. They would impress me if they'd succeed.