Translation help 'should be cut'

mkpdavies · 10-06-2007, 12:59 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6738603.stm

Quote:

The amount of official material being translated by bodies such as councils should be cut to encourage immigrants to learn English, Ruth Kelly has said.
The communities secretary said there were cases - such as in a casualty ward - where translation was necessary.

But, she told the BBC's Politics Show, translation had been "used too frequently and without thought".

Ms Kelly said that learning and using the English language was "key" to helping migrants to integrate.

Welcomed. Now follow through and make sure this happens.

g hall · 10-06-2007, 04:45 PM

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10-06-2007, 04:45 PM	#2 (permalink)
g hall Uber Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: erehwon Posts: 5,225	Que __________________ "That government is best which governs least." "This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a Physician for all diseases and miseries". "To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy --and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful."

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