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Subject: Re: Op=Op! Posted on: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:58:03 +0000 (UTC)

"William Black" wrote:

>The Poles are doing it in the UK.
>
>Except they don't even bother to learn to speak the language so everyone
>involved has to employ translators...
>
>One of the lesser joys of being in the EC...

Funny, the Poles and Lithuanians and Latvians I meet here in Ireland
all speak some English, and most of them speak it very well. Their
children go to school and learn Gaelic better than many children of
Irish parentage.

How come they perform so poorly in the UK? Is British English a
greater barrier than Hiberno-English, or is it that we attract a
better quality of immigrant?

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