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You would have thought that it was all so simple. You go to another country to start a better life; you learn the language of that country in order to integrate with your new-found homeland and to enable you to obtain gainful employment.
Well that has been the template used successfully by generations of migrants worldwide, but could that all be about to change?

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Our beleaguered Government will, no doubt, have found the latest reports on projected immigration to the UK, very unwelcome. Relegating the Governments original projections to the realms of fantasy, the latest research estimates the true impact of UK inflows and associated factors to lead to a virtual doubling of the population within a lifetime.

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In view of England’s humiliating ejection from the European Cup competition vide their defeat at the hands of Croatia, perhaps we should at last concede that we will never capture the former glories of the 1966 World Cup Team. We seem to forever fall back upon this great sporting achievement and bask in past glories; but let’s not forget that we’ve only won the cup once…a long time ago and our achievements in most other competitions is mediocre at best.

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I read with some interest about recent developments regarding multilingual signage at the mainline station in Southall, West London. Southall has been known for many years amongst Londoners as an area of predominantly Asian residents from the Punjab region of India and Pakistan.

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Birthdays are often marked by many diverse modes of celebration, but the upcoming 90th birthday of Estonia is to be marked by a somewhat unique type of commemoration…a beauty contest to decide the ‘prettiest’ language.

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Since my first visit there many years ago, I have always liked the Netherlands and the Dutch people; the country itself is beautiful, if somewhat flat and the people are friendly.

I first went to the Netherlands to brush up on my Dutch, but I noticed that whenever I attempted to communicate in Dutch, somehow the object of my attempts would immediately recognise that I was British and reply in perfect grammatical English (far better, in fact than most Brits).

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There is no other way to say this, but I LOVE the Czech Republic. Since I first set foot there some years ago (at that time the Communists were still in power), I have adored everything about the place. The country is a paradise of forests and scattered villages, the old architecture is a mixture of Gothic, Baroque and Rococo, the people are helpful and warm hearted and the food is out of this world.

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Lovers of Mozart and specifically of his most popular opera, The Magic Flute or more correctly, Die Zauberflote, will be delighted to hear that The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden will be staging a series of performances of the same from the end of January 2008. The performances will run through all of February and some of March 2008 and early booking is highly recommended.

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Some while ago I recall reading that there was supposedly some link between the Welsh and the Berber peoples of North Africa. I seem to remember that the crux of this theory was that the Welsh were decedents of a people of Iberian stock who migrated to Wales via Asia long ago in antiquity.

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No one will be unaware of the huge amount of material being translated into a multitude of languages in the UK today. Such material is usually originated by Government, Councils and other public or public service providing bodies, such as Schools and public transport companies.

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