I only wish that the Tories would apply a similar policy of immigrants having to learn English, to English monoglots moving into rural Wales. |
This nadir of knowledge that some monoglots descend to deserves our pity, be they speakers of English, French, German or whatever. |
In my early years this was reduced to about 50 per cent Welsh speaking with few Welsh monoglots over the age of five. |
However, English, sometimes in the form of Scots, is the dominant language, with few monoglots remaining in the other languages of the region. |
People like you, I suspect, are monoglots and have no choice but to speak English. |
One group is sure to complain about such an arrangement, and that is the small number of Mainlander Mandarin monoglots. |