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Re: Asian women and the English language.
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Originally Posted by spinner
i must admit im with ianto on this one. those leaflets when printed in urdu are completely wasteful as people who can read urdu generally speaking can read english as Pakistan was a former colony and english has been taught for many years.the majority of people who are unable to read basic english are illeterate and cant even read urdu. i think the printers just make a good living from it.
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From today's Sunday Times.
Councils told to axe translation help for migrants -News-Politics-TimesOnline
Councils and Town Halls are to be forced by the government to stop translating every published piece of information in other languages, in order to encourage immigrants to learn English.
About bloody time too.
Hopefully soon we won't be seeing languages, other than English, on HBC's website.
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