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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 26,853
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    I dont' mind. We have a large Polish population where I live and they are a lovely people for the most part. A friend of mine is trying to teach me but I'm a bit rubbbish at languages. Gawd knows what I'll do if I ever want to live in Spain :D
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    HarrisonMarksHarrisonMarks Posts: 4,360
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    Niefrasobliwy
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    SaturnSaturn Posts: 18,971
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    Something has to be our second language, what's the problem?
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    Mr. BlueskyMr. Bluesky Posts: 382
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    HarrisonMarks wrote: »
    Niefrasobliwy

    Just North of Cardiff I think?
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    CasualCasual Posts: 2,696
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    Apparently 70,000 people speak Tagalog. Never even heard of it :confused:
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 12,830
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    Where can you polish your Polish ?
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    TomGrantTomGrant Posts: 4,251
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    The statement doesn't sound quite as exciting when you realise its only 1% of the population that speaks Polish compared to our first language, English, which 92.3% speak.

    It's a non-story really.
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    RorschachRorschach Posts: 10,818
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    It's still only spoken by 1% of the population so I'm not that concerned, America's second language (Spanish) is spoken by 12% of the population so the Poles have a way to go yet.
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    2-Pot Screamer2-Pot Screamer Posts: 34,238
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    Casual wrote: »
    Apparently 70,000 people speak Tagalog. Never even heard of it :confused:
    It's also known as "Filipino".
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    RorschachRorschach Posts: 10,818
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    Casual wrote: »
    Apparently 70,000 people speak Tagalog. Never even heard of it :confused:
    That's "Fillipino".
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    RorschachRorschach Posts: 10,818
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    petertard wrote: »
    Where can you polish your Polish ?

    At a Polish polishers.
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    CasualCasual Posts: 2,696
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    2-Pot Screamer wrote: »
    It's also known as "Filipino".

    It's the first time I've ever seen the word. At least I learned something on DS for once, other than the masturbatory habits of bedsit dwellers.
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    80sfan80sfan Posts: 18,522
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    Just wait. Romanian and Bulgarian will no doubt be up there in a few years, with more towns like Boston bursting at the seams :(
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    batgirlbatgirl Posts: 42,248
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    Jestem bardzo zadowolona. :)
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    2-Pot Screamer2-Pot Screamer Posts: 34,238
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    Wonder why Mandarin and Cantonese are excluded from the "Chinese" category in that table? :confused:

    Mandarin is the most widely-spoken Chinese language, whilst Cantonese, being the main language in Hong Kong, is probably the one most likely to be spoken by immigrants from China! .
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    Dawn SunDawn Sun Posts: 1,287
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    Mr. Bluesky wrote: »
    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/2011-census-polish-language-becomes-1564957


    How do you feel about that?

    Mainly indifferent.

    It's an interesting language I think - all those Cs and Zs!

    What was our supposed 'second language' before Polish I wonder?
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    80sfan80sfan Posts: 18,522
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    TomGrant wrote: »
    The statement doesn't sound quite as exciting when you realise its only 1% of the population that speaks Polish compared to our first language, English, which 92.3% speak.

    It's a non-story really.

    Not really. It highlights just how badly wrong the last Labour government got unlimited Eastern European immigration and that in the space of less than 10 years, around half a million people have arrived on these shores, often unskilled and unable to speak English.

    Have the Tories learnt anything from Labour's mess and will they do anything to stop the same mistakes happening with Romania and Bulgaria? Probably not :rolleyes:
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    RorschachRorschach Posts: 10,818
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    Dawn Sun wrote: »
    What was our supposed 'second language' before Polish I wonder?
    Assuming all the other nationalities have remained about the same, the table in the article suggests it would have been either Punjabi or Urdu. Both are spoken by around 0.5% of the population.
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    wazzyboywazzyboy Posts: 13,346
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    Surely what this actually refers to is that, in a list of first languages, the majority's first language is English, and for the next biggest group it is Polish. Not that Polish is "our second language".

    Hands up if your first Language is English and you learnt Polish at school?
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 26,853
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    80sfan wrote: »
    Not really. It highlights just how badly wrong the last Labour government got unlimited Eastern European immigration and that in the space of less than 10 years, around half a million people have arrived on these shores, often unskilled and unable to speak English.

    Have the Tories learnt anything from Labour's mess and will they do anything to stop the same mistakes happening with Romania and Bulgaria? Probably not :rolleyes:

    All the Polish people round here (the ones I know and the ones I see and hear so not ALL maybe but you get my point) speak both English and Polish.
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    whitecliffewhitecliffe Posts: 12,152
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    My dads second language is Polish he came to this country 50 odd years ago. Perhaps we should send him home now.!!
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    InkblotInkblot Posts: 26,889
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    According to the Guardian's interactive map, the second language where I live in London is French, spoken by 3%, then Polish (under 2%) then Italian (1%). I have noticed that there always seem to be Italians on the bus, but that's hardly scientific proof of anything.
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    davidmcndavidmcn Posts: 12,111
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    Lizzy11268 wrote: »
    All the Polish people round here (the ones I know and the ones I see and hear so not ALL maybe but you get my point) speak both English and Polish.

    Some of the ones I know speak better English than many of the indigenous population! The thing they find more difficult is getting to grips with the local dialect if they've been taught "proper" English.
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    Dai13371Dai13371 Posts: 8,071
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    HarrisonMarks wrote: »
    Anyway, this is only in England. In Scotland the second language is English and in Wales it's 'baa' .

    You forgot the "stards" bit at the end. Oh and "English" at the beginning.
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    Dawn SunDawn Sun Posts: 1,287
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    Rorschach wrote: »
    Assuming all the other nationalities have remained about the same, the table in the article suggests it would have been either Punjabi or Urdu. Both are spoken by around 0.5% of the population.

    Thanks :) All quite interesting really!
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