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18-12-2006
Hope of escape lost in translation
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London, UK (Times): According to this article, providing interpreters instead of encouraging immigrants to speak English keeps them in their ghettos. It’s a shocking figure: more than £100m was spent in the past year on translating and interpreting for British residents who don’t speak English. In the name of multiculturalism, one Home Office-funded community centre alone provides these services in 76 languages.
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