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Title: British Council: Brexit hitting foreign language learning in schools
Post by: Tequila on July 02, 2019, 11:56:16 PM
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Brexit 'hitting foreign languages in schools' (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-48830260)

Brexit is causing poorer children to fall further behind in learning foreign languages, says the British Council.


Parents in disadvantaged areas are telling teachers languages will be less useful after Brexit, it says.


It warns that GCSEs and A-level languages in England are seen as being hard subjects in which to get a good grade.

Why do we need to know Polish these days? In the past it was needed because Poles came to work. Many have gone home. Most of the languages are of little use unless you live there. The South Asian languages and Arabic are useful for dealing with terror but learning German as in the article is pointless. Germans would wonder why, specially as the young and many middle aged speak English anyway.
Title: Re: British Council: Brexit hitting foreign language learning in schools
Post by: Tequila on July 03, 2019, 12:10:48 AM
Other point is: we're becoming ourselves. We don't need European languages. Google Translate is good enough for ordering stuff from France or Germany.
Title: Re: British Council: Brexit hitting foreign language learning in schools
Post by: odeon on July 03, 2019, 12:59:51 AM
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Title: Re: British Council: Brexit hitting foreign language learning in schools
Post by: Tequila on July 03, 2019, 02:02:42 AM
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What use is it for us to learn Swedish? You need English to converse with folk. If I learn Swedish you'll think I'm one of you. I get laid. You don't want me having sex with Swedish ladies.
Title: Re: British Council: Brexit hitting foreign language learning in schools
Post by: Minister Of Silly Walks on July 03, 2019, 05:36:06 AM
He's got a point Odeon. You really don't want that.
Title: Re: British Council: Brexit hitting foreign language learning in schools
Post by: odeon on July 03, 2019, 03:15:43 PM
Oh, I think we're quite safe.
Title: Re: British Council: Brexit hitting foreign language learning in schools
Post by: Tequila on July 03, 2019, 03:50:44 PM
Oh, I think we're quite safe.

My point is that a tourist knowing Swedish would be of considerable interest to an autistic Swedish gal, particularly if they knew other languages and had charisma. They're fucking your women, remember? You should be shagging them, not them.

Also, talk to some of the Swedish women who've had trouble with dodgy Arab immigrants. It's not as bad here. We make the shops in Muslim areas write their signs in English, not Urdu.
Title: Re: British Council: Brexit hitting foreign language learning in schools
Post by: odeon on July 03, 2019, 04:01:07 PM
Oh, I think we're quite safe.

My point is that a tourist knowing Swedish would be of considerable interest to an autistic Swedish gal, particularly if they knew other languages and had charisma. They're fucking your women, remember? You should be shagging them, not them.

Also, talk to some of the Swedish women who've had trouble with dodgy Arab immigrants. It's not as bad here. We make the shops in Muslim areas write their signs in English, not Urdu.

Are you sure you didn't take a right turn from Copenhagen and visit Baghdad?
Title: Re: British Council: Brexit hitting foreign language learning in schools
Post by: Tequila on July 03, 2019, 04:04:54 PM
I remember Reepalu. Ugly, craven politician.
Title: Re: British Council: Brexit hitting foreign language learning in schools
Post by: odeon on July 03, 2019, 04:08:53 PM
I refer you to my earlier GIF.
Title: Re: British Council: Brexit hitting foreign language learning in schools
Post by: Tequila on July 03, 2019, 04:15:00 PM
I don't expect the SD to be the Government, I want them to realise that Sweden isn't timid. Things are changing there and it's largely due to them.
Title: Re: British Council: Brexit hitting foreign language learning in schools
Post by: odeon on July 04, 2019, 01:04:41 AM
They are like any populist party in Europe. They survive and thrive by tapping into people's fears, not by any sort of sustainable politics. Basically they are bigoted thugs, much like their counterparts in the 1930s Germany.

Someone wise pointed out that it takes about one and a half generation for humanity to forget, and I couldn't agree more.
Title: Re: British Council: Brexit hitting foreign language learning in schools
Post by: Tequila on July 04, 2019, 01:12:41 AM
They are like any populist party in Europe. They survive and thrive by tapping into people's fears, not by any sort of sustainable politics. Basically they are bigoted thugs, much like their counterparts in the 1930s Germany.

The NPD are thugs. Golden Dawn are thugs. Jobbik are thugs. Brexit Party aren't thugs. The SD aren't thugs. The FrP aren't thugs.

The people who vote for these parties are very aware of Thirties Germany. We're friends with Europe, indeed the whole world. Your problem is denying the truth. If it was you, Sweden would have a 20% Muslim population before you said "enough". From there, they'd really hurt your country. All the SD are saying is that they're Swedes. There is nothing racist about saying that in Sweden, as long as real intolerance isn't implied.
Title: Re: British Council: Brexit hitting foreign language learning in schools
Post by: odeon on July 04, 2019, 05:08:51 AM
Er, no. Just no. You have literally no idea what you're talking about.
Title: Re: British Council: Brexit hitting foreign language learning in schools
Post by: Tequila on July 04, 2019, 05:39:09 AM
Er, no. Just no. You have literally no idea what you're talking about.

You can't tell the difference between the Brexit Party and Golden Dawn?! :o
Title: Re: British Council: Brexit hitting foreign language learning in schools
Post by: odeon on July 04, 2019, 01:54:07 PM
Er, no. Just no. You have literally no idea what you're talking about.

You can't tell the difference between the Brexit Party and Golden Dawn?! :o

Have another go at reading my post and see what it says. Then compare it with what you just said. See if there is a match.
Title: Re: British Council: Brexit hitting foreign language learning in schools
Post by: Tequila on July 04, 2019, 01:57:23 PM
Er, no. Just no. You have literally no idea what you're talking about.

Why do I have no idea? I know leftists that condlated UKIP and Nazi fucking Germany.

You can't tell the difference between the Brexit Party and Golden Dawn?! :o

Have another go at reading my post and see what it says. Then compare it with what you just said. See if there is a match.
Title: Re: British Council: Brexit hitting foreign language learning in schools
Post by: odeon on July 04, 2019, 02:01:29 PM
You obviously have no idea of what SD is about, and you keep on parroting populist propaganda. That's why, among other things.
Title: Re: British Council: Brexit hitting foreign language learning in schools
Post by: Tequila on July 04, 2019, 02:05:34 PM
You obviously have no idea of what SD is about, and you keep on parroting populist propaganda. That's why, among other things.

Explain. They were dodgy a long time ago. They're saying "we're Swedes - you can't rape her".
Title: Re: British Council: Brexit hitting foreign language learning in schools
Post by: odeon on July 04, 2019, 02:09:53 PM
Read up on them. They are closet nazis, a populist party without a political agenda beyond thinly veiled bigotry and some fairly nasty ideas borrowed from other euro nazis.
Title: Re: British Council: Brexit hitting foreign language learning in schools
Post by: Tequila on July 04, 2019, 02:13:00 PM
Read up on them. They are closet nazis, a populist party without a political agenda beyond thinly veiled bigotry and some fairly nasty ideas borrowed from other euro nazis.

Some are a bit thick. The main neo-Nazism of the 1990s has been dealt with.
Title: Re: British Council: Brexit hitting foreign language learning in schools
Post by: Tequila on July 04, 2019, 02:17:19 PM
Hell, the European Conservatives have them. But anyway, I've said my piece.
Title: Re: British Council: Brexit hitting foreign language learning in schools
Post by: odeon on July 04, 2019, 02:29:53 PM
Read up on them. They are closet nazis, a populist party without a political agenda beyond thinly veiled bigotry and some fairly nasty ideas borrowed from other euro nazis.

Some are a bit thick. The main neo-Nazism of the 1990s has been dealt with.

No. They only act when a closet nazi acts up in public and the media take notice, and even then only in a half-arsed way.

Hell, the European Conservatives have them. But anyway, I've said my piece.

It's OK because there are closet nazis outside the obvious places?

Sigh.
Title: Re: British Council: Brexit hitting foreign language learning in schools
Post by: Tequila on July 04, 2019, 02:31:33 PM
My point us you don't want SD'ers linking to this. Another reason fir making this forum private.
Title: Re: British Council: Brexit hitting foreign language learning in schools
Post by: odeon on July 04, 2019, 02:35:08 PM
I doubt they'd care about a tiny spazz board.