Foreign Drivers - Speak the Language?

the maoster:
I don’t need to know you to know you’re an idiot. You constantly furnish the proof whenever you type.

Whatever suits you. As I told you not bigger than yourself. Everyone has right to his opinion but opinion of many is different to your one.
Have a great day.

Just checking in to see how this threads going- any numpties quoted wikipedia as gospel yet-- oh just the one.
Anyway the Russians won WW2 thought we all knew that.

^^^^ :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: . Probably the same numpty that hasn’t answered the question as to what it’s countrymen were doing during Adolfs world tour! One of two C’s I imagine, capitulation or collaboration!

Dipper_Dave:
Its should be English only and none of this French, German, Spanish, Italian primitive gibberish…
We are 3rd in the most common languages spoken in the world,

I have found myself in an RDC waiting room surrounded by foreigners speaking rubbish and been tempted to ask them to leave or speak in a language I am familar with (thats just English then).

Sure I’m not alone in this but I find it insulting if a visitor to my country can’t speak my language or at least have the decency to STFU in my prescence.

As you can imagine when a call centre in India (other foreign countries are available) phones me at home they are greated with so much abuse they have to put the phone down.

And when they listen to you,do you know what they are thinking about you talking, what to them is, a load of rubbish.
What`s the betting when you go on holiday its only in the UK,or if its abroad its to Benidorm or Salou areas where the population is 80% brits

lolipop:
And when they listen to you,do you know what they are thinking about you talking, what to them is, a load of rubbish.

If they are just passing through my homeland I would expect you to be correct. If however they have chosen to live and work here I would expect them to understand me (or at least be in the process of learning English). I would of course do the same if I chose to reside in their neck of the woods.

What`s the betting when you go on holiday its only in the UK,or if its abroad its to Benidorm or Salou areas where the population is 80% brits

Quite a good bet to be fair as I consider Spain a second home I often surprise a few by being able to speak a sentence or two in Spanish (I just stick and ‘O’ on the end of everything and speak louder), I would make every effort to learn the language if I lived there though.

I notice English isn’t your first language lollipop and I would like to thank you for conversing in the primary language of this forum.

[quick edit to correct some awful speeling so I don’t look too silly :wink:]

IM a Romanian(not a gipsy)And yes! I’m better at English then my native language because in the future I’d love to live in the greatest country in all Europe. Not a fan of your weather and dissapointed about very few lorry parkings. Next time I have a job in UK I’ll bring a bottle. :slight_smile:

Carco:
IM a Romanian(not a gipsy) and I find some users comments to be narrow minded. And yes! I’m better at English the my native language because in the future I’d love to live in the greatest country in all Europe. Not a fan of your weather and dissapointed about very few lorry parkings. Next time I have a job in UK I’ll bring a bottle. :slight_smile:

Nowt wrong with being the ‘G’ word, the Irony of your opening 6 words followed by the ‘Narrow Minded’ statement is not lost on me. :wink:

Welcome to the forum and your command of the English language is excellent, you can live here too if you want.

Yeah! I was racist to! Caught me! It’s true that most of the gypsyes are unethical, immoral and exploiters but I had one in my class that became a cop. The odds…

Guess what - cops can be unethical, immoral & exploitative too. :neutral_face:

Carco:
Yeah! I was racist to!..

Whoa less of the ‘to!’, i’m not racist (Oh alright maybe a just little a bit, when ■■■■■■■■■■■ more xenobophobic and not very politically correct thats all.
It should be compulsory for anyone wishing to live and work in an another country to make the effort to learn the lingo. There should also be a basic language test after a year of residence and if not passed your booted out.

When I was delivering in Germany, I managed for 4 days in Europe without being able to speak the lingo…

A coffee machine/fuel pump/toll booth etc in europe works much the same as one here

True

Dipper_Dave:

Carco:
There should also be a basic language test after a year of residence and if not passed your booted out.

70% of Brits who took the citizenship test failed it and I guarantee that a greater proportion would fail any language test.

:slight_smile:) that hurt!

wheelnutt:
70% of Brits who took the citizenship test failed it and I guarantee that a greater proportion would fail any language test.

I think your probably right but a link from a credible source would be nice to verify your post.
By language test- it should be fairly easy and just hard enough that no Tom, ■■■■ or Hariski could pass it wthout having at least made some effort.

Dipper_Dave:

wheelnutt:
70% of Brits who took the citizenship test failed it and I guarantee that a greater proportion would fail any language test.

I think your probably right but a link from a credible source would be nice to verify your post.
By language test- it should be fairly easy and just hard enough that no Tom, ■■■■ or Hariski could pass it wthout having at least made some effort.

thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne … hness.html
howbritishareyou.com/2009/08/04/ … ship-test/
channel4.com/info/press/news … nship-test

Most, if not all foreigners speak several languages, among 16-24 year olds, the UK was ranked 22nd for ­literacy and 21st for numeracy in a league table of 24 nations, behind Estonia, Poland and Slovakia

I think we need to get our house in order first before we start spreading xenophobic rants. The Eastern Europeans have better literacy and numeracy skills than we do, in order to get to their level of education we really ought to learn their language and not the other way round…

Not only are they better in literacy and numeracy, they are better endowed too…with the cheese eating surrender monkeys “leading” the charge (no pun intended)

alphadesigner.com/blog/europe-ac … enis-size/

Dipper_Dave:
Its should be English only and none of this French, German, Spanish, Italian primitive gibberish…
We are 3rd in the most common languages spoken in the world,

I have found myself in an RDC waiting room surrounded by foreigners speaking rubbish and been tempted to ask them to leave or speak in a language I am familar with (thats just English then).

Sure I’m not alone in this but I find it insulting if a visitor to my country can’t speak my language or at least have the decency to STFU in my prescence.

As you can imagine when a call centre in India (other foreign countries are available) phones me at home they are greated with so much abuse they have to put the phone down.

agree 100%

truckman020:

Dipper_Dave:
Its should be English only and none of this French, German, Spanish, Italian primitive gibberish…
agree 100%

I do feel sorry for guys like you and Dipper Dave. Being a racist or even a xenophobe just means that you suffer from a very low self esteem and live in a hidden world of hatred and failure, in order for you to feel good you can only do so by making yourself feel superior to other races.

You only have to just scratch below the surface and you will find that racists, bigots and xenophobes are big losers themselves that have been bullied in life, have been subjected to humiliation and degradation since their early childhood and have to live their lives under a powerful compulsion to degrade others. They can’t improve their own life, can’t overcome their own issues and the only way for them to feel slightly better about themselves is to try to make others feel the same humiliation they have felt their whole life themselves.

Losers can only feel like winners when they look down their noses at others rather then face their own sense of shame and failure.

On the spot! Psihology power!