From The Mouths Of Babes...
#1
Posted 18 April 2017 - 04:03 PM
Local kids tend to congregate and play the other side of my garden fence, including some from East European families who've moved into the area.
Anyway, I noticed how these East European kids will talk in their own language amongst themselves but switch to English as soon as indigenous youngsters turn up. But then, almost unbelievably, I coulda sworn I heard a couple of the indigenous ones actually speaking a few words in Polish (I guess) back to them - and naturally, effortlessly, without appearing to really think about it.
A glimpse of the future? A Britain where our culture continues to adapt and evolve as it's done throughout centuries of migration?
Hmmm...
#4
Posted 18 April 2017 - 05:46 PM
#5
Posted 18 April 2017 - 09:59 PM
#7
Posted 21 April 2017 - 06:01 AM
ash_cfc, on 18 April 2017 - 09:59 PM, said:
I use makaton with my little one
SAVE A LIFE
#8
Posted 21 April 2017 - 03:30 PM
One of my work colleagues is polish so picked up a little bit of basic polish. I'm determined to learn a second language one day, although my regular holiday destination is Iceland and there's no way I'll be learning that, not through want of trying but of difficulty.
#9
Posted 25 April 2017 - 05:31 PM
SpireiteFitzy, on 21 April 2017 - 03:30 PM, said:
One of my work colleagues is polish so picked up a little bit of basic polish. I'm determined to learn a second language one day, although my regular holiday destination is Iceland and there's no way I'll be learning that, not through want of trying but of difficulty.
Why Iceland? I can see the appeal of once or twice maybe but regularly seems a bit weird.
#10
Posted 28 April 2017 - 02:40 PM
Town_Fan, on 25 April 2017 - 05:31 PM, said:
Cheap ale?
#13
Posted 28 April 2017 - 06:28 PM
#14
Posted 29 April 2017 - 10:42 AM
Wooly, on 28 April 2017 - 06:28 PM, said:
Innit...
#18
Posted 29 April 2017 - 12:18 PM
Town_Fan, on 25 April 2017 - 05:31 PM, said:
Everyone has their own preferences, that place they like to go to get away from the grind of daily life. Plenty to see and do up there, and the people are some of the friendliest you'll ever meet, and it's not as expensive as its made out to be if you know where to go.
calvin plummers socks, on 28 April 2017 - 02:47 PM, said:
Never heard that one before
RN Blue, on 28 April 2017 - 04:23 PM, said:
Or that one.