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Originally Posted by Firewire
No because there are people who speak Gaelic or Welsh for example that don't speak any English at all or vice versa
I can't speak Gaelic and I'm not interested in learning Gaelic yet I live in Scotland
If I moved to Spain tomorrow I wouldn't be able to speak Spanish. I may learn Spanish in time but I would not be in any rush to as it is very time consuming to learn another language.
So people can move here and not be able to speak the language. It will be very difficult for them but there's their choice.
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This for me too. It would be ideal if they could speak English, but mandatory? What are the problems we'd face by those people coming over? Inconvenience that we wouldn't be able to overhear their conversations? The real problems would be faced by the immigrants themselves not us so I don't why it's something we should force onto them. If someone decides to emigrate to a country where they can't speak the language then there must be pretty important reasons for them doing so.