So are they proposing changes to the education to make sure everyone has a good level of english? or are they gonna go after immigration which is a reserved matter?
Sorry, what?
That’s amazing. You’re in a much better place to learn languages at school if you already know more than one.
I know a wee girl (Scottish born) who speaks Polish, Japanese and English and when she starts languages at school she’s going to have a great time compared to anyone who only speaks English.Â
Idiots.Â
So I know couples who don’t speak English at home who have children. The reasoning is the kids are exposed to English every time they leave the house but won’t experience the other language (in these instances French and Spanish) at all. They want their kids to be multilingual because it makes communication with family abroad easier and gives them a really useful skill later in life.
Why exactly am I meant to be outraged by this?
But they speak English as a second language so what’s the problem exactly?
Not sure they campaigned on the loss of Gaelic with the same gusto …..
And they’re simultaneously protesting mothers getting English lessons to help them integrate into the community and support their children in education?
Wallopers.
Teach Scots, Scottish Standard English, Gaelic, Scottish BSL, and traveller languages. Have the parents bring their community languages into the schools and encourage multilingualism.
Scotland, along with Wales and Northern Ireland, is excellently placed with our linguistic diversity to produce language experts well above our weight.
English monolingualism is an oppressive imposition to put on any multilingual society.
This is culture, smashing!
It’s not unnoticed this happens the week after Scots is officially a national language.
*In 1999 he married Kirsten Mehr, a German national; the couple have two children. In April 2018, Farage said that the children have both British and German passports and that they speak “perfect German”.*
Oh, ok then.
Nice to see the one trick ponies at Reform campaigning on the most important issue of our time, getting rid of the traffic lights on the Dekebone roundabout!
Accusing 2 out of 3 glasweegians of any kind of Englishness is liable to get you lynched if you ever step foot across their border nige.
So they’re just assuming that people who don’t speak it as their *first* language can’t speak it at all? Just because English is a second (or third) language doesn’t mean they can’t be fluent in it. Just more typical racist dogwhistle bullshit that doesn’t help anyone.
Reform give zero fucks about Scotland beyond how much they can profit from abusing it. If you vote reform you’re either stupid, racist, or both. Fact.
My wife doesn’t speak English as her first language, her first language is German, however she also has a Masters degree in English.
Note that they’re not saying “does not speak English fluently” so it’s very clearly an immigrant issue to them.
What a bullshit metric, both my parents didn’t have English as a first language when they came to Glasgow, my dad even anglicised his name when he moved here.
I literally couldn’t be more Scottish
So how is Reform going to make them speak English as a first language?
How exactly to they plan on dealing with people who have a first language that isn’t English?
Amnesia inducing drugs?
Exploratory trepanning?
I hate tin-pot fascists and their sub-remedial view of civilised society.
So if I (Glaswegian) have a child while living abroad and want my child to have the language of the country they are born in (which they would need for nursery/primary) then move back to Scotland, that would make my child part of the “problem”? Even if they spoke fluent English as a second language?
Crazy coming from a guy who has two British-German children.
Remind me again why Scots SHOULD speak English Instead of it being one of the options alongside Scots/Gaelic/Doric? Frog-faced Russian puppet prick.
So he’s angry at….bilingual kids?? 🙄
I swear to god, fuck off Nigel.
Who cares? As long as they can speak it they’ll do fine… Better than the English moving to Spain who know ZERO spanish
Do we have some data about whether these children speak English at all? Because if they do, multilingualism is something which is sorely lacking in this country. I’d rather more people spoke more than one language, including myself.
Why does it matter if its their first language? Is 1 in 3 children in glasgow being at least bilingual people that bad of a thing?
You’re right, our language education IS an embarrassment and MORE school children should be multi lingual….that’s what he’s getting at, right?
…r….right?
Campaigning on the language that subjugated the nation being the dominant language in a school is not the flex they think it is
Is this off the back of Scots and Gaelic being made official languages?
I have no doubt they are trying to lean into some scaremongering that “Not English” means immigrant of some kind rather than the fact that there’s a chunk of the population who either switch between English and Scots words or speak Scots out of comfort, habit and a sense of national pride. I’m surprised if they’ve not tried the same bollocks in Wale
The more languages he can be told to fuck off in the better, in my opinion.
Oh no children being fluent in multiple languages!! Whatever will we do?!
His kids speak German as a first language!
I find it hilarious that after all these centuries ‘the vikings are taking the attention of the local women, with their bathing and combs’. Is still politically relevant in UK.
English isn’t the first language of his wife. Will he deport her first?
What a melt.
The thing is they will learn English, statistically do better at school and go on to further education. Unlike someone one like you, handed everything on a plate. Wanker
I saw someone comment on this earlier saying it’s not surprising when Scotland is led by a Muslim. I was certainly surprised to find that out about John Swinney.
It’s good that we have the Census to debunk this nonsense.
Given there are 603,000 people in Glasgow and 78,000 3-16s, and 10,000 speak Scots, 3,500 Gaelic and 2,200 BSL as per the 2022 Census, this isn’t a surprise…
Of those 78,000, English is the main language of 69,500. Of these 78,000, only 3,200 (4%) have poor/no English. Of these, 2,700 are under the age of 10. I imagine a number of them have speech difficulties.
Great one for a journalist, “what aspect for Scottish culture are you most concerned about?” If he says language, then hit him with a question in Gaelic and Scots.
Because let’s be clear, Nigel Farage doesn’t know us at all. He reckons we’re basically England with a weird accentÂ
You can’t change someone’s first language, mate.
So what if they speak Scots first? It’s being recognised as an official language too nowÂ
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So are they proposing changes to the education to make sure everyone has a good level of english? or are they gonna go after immigration which is a reserved matter?
Sorry, what?
That’s amazing. You’re in a much better place to learn languages at school if you already know more than one.
I know a wee girl (Scottish born) who speaks Polish, Japanese and English and when she starts languages at school she’s going to have a great time compared to anyone who only speaks English.Â
Idiots.Â
So I know couples who don’t speak English at home who have children. The reasoning is the kids are exposed to English every time they leave the house but won’t experience the other language (in these instances French and Spanish) at all. They want their kids to be multilingual because it makes communication with family abroad easier and gives them a really useful skill later in life.
Why exactly am I meant to be outraged by this?
But they speak English as a second language so what’s the problem exactly?
Not sure they campaigned on the loss of Gaelic with the same gusto …..
And they’re simultaneously protesting mothers getting English lessons to help them integrate into the community and support their children in education?
Wallopers.
Teach Scots, Scottish Standard English, Gaelic, Scottish BSL, and traveller languages. Have the parents bring their community languages into the schools and encourage multilingualism.
Scotland, along with Wales and Northern Ireland, is excellently placed with our linguistic diversity to produce language experts well above our weight.
English monolingualism is an oppressive imposition to put on any multilingual society.
This is culture, smashing!
It’s not unnoticed this happens the week after Scots is officially a national language.
*In 1999 he married Kirsten Mehr, a German national; the couple have two children. In April 2018, Farage said that the children have both British and German passports and that they speak “perfect German”.*
Oh, ok then.
Nice to see the one trick ponies at Reform campaigning on the most important issue of our time, getting rid of the traffic lights on the Dekebone roundabout!
Accusing 2 out of 3 glasweegians of any kind of Englishness is liable to get you lynched if you ever step foot across their border nige.
So they’re just assuming that people who don’t speak it as their *first* language can’t speak it at all? Just because English is a second (or third) language doesn’t mean they can’t be fluent in it. Just more typical racist dogwhistle bullshit that doesn’t help anyone.
Reform give zero fucks about Scotland beyond how much they can profit from abusing it. If you vote reform you’re either stupid, racist, or both. Fact.
My wife doesn’t speak English as her first language, her first language is German, however she also has a Masters degree in English.
Note that they’re not saying “does not speak English fluently” so it’s very clearly an immigrant issue to them.
What a bullshit metric, both my parents didn’t have English as a first language when they came to Glasgow, my dad even anglicised his name when he moved here.
I literally couldn’t be more Scottish
So how is Reform going to make them speak English as a first language?
How exactly to they plan on dealing with people who have a first language that isn’t English?
Amnesia inducing drugs?
Exploratory trepanning?
I hate tin-pot fascists and their sub-remedial view of civilised society.
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Great replacement at its finest!
So if I (Glaswegian) have a child while living abroad and want my child to have the language of the country they are born in (which they would need for nursery/primary) then move back to Scotland, that would make my child part of the “problem”? Even if they spoke fluent English as a second language?
Crazy coming from a guy who has two British-German children.
Remind me again why Scots SHOULD speak English Instead of it being one of the options alongside Scots/Gaelic/Doric? Frog-faced Russian puppet prick.
So he’s angry at….bilingual kids?? 🙄
I swear to god, fuck off Nigel.
Who cares? As long as they can speak it they’ll do fine… Better than the English moving to Spain who know ZERO spanish
Do we have some data about whether these children speak English at all? Because if they do, multilingualism is something which is sorely lacking in this country. I’d rather more people spoke more than one language, including myself.
Why does it matter if its their first language? Is 1 in 3 children in glasgow being at least bilingual people that bad of a thing?
You’re right, our language education IS an embarrassment and MORE school children should be multi lingual….that’s what he’s getting at, right?
…r….right?
Campaigning on the language that subjugated the nation being the dominant language in a school is not the flex they think it is
Is this off the back of Scots and Gaelic being made official languages?
I have no doubt they are trying to lean into some scaremongering that “Not English” means immigrant of some kind rather than the fact that there’s a chunk of the population who either switch between English and Scots words or speak Scots out of comfort, habit and a sense of national pride. I’m surprised if they’ve not tried the same bollocks in Wale
The more languages he can be told to fuck off in the better, in my opinion.
Oh no children being fluent in multiple languages!! Whatever will we do?!
His kids speak German as a first language!
I find it hilarious that after all these centuries ‘the vikings are taking the attention of the local women, with their bathing and combs’. Is still politically relevant in UK.
English isn’t the first language of his wife. Will he deport her first?
What a melt.
The thing is they will learn English, statistically do better at school and go on to further education. Unlike someone one like you, handed everything on a plate. Wanker
I saw someone comment on this earlier saying it’s not surprising when Scotland is led by a Muslim. I was certainly surprised to find that out about John Swinney.
It’s good that we have the Census to debunk this nonsense.
Given there are 603,000 people in Glasgow and 78,000 3-16s, and 10,000 speak Scots, 3,500 Gaelic and 2,200 BSL as per the 2022 Census, this isn’t a surprise…
Of those 78,000, English is the main language of 69,500. Of these 78,000, only 3,200 (4%) have poor/no English. Of these, 2,700 are under the age of 10. I imagine a number of them have speech difficulties.
Great one for a journalist, “what aspect for Scottish culture are you most concerned about?” If he says language, then hit him with a question in Gaelic and Scots.
Because let’s be clear, Nigel Farage doesn’t know us at all. He reckons we’re basically England with a weird accentÂ
You can’t change someone’s first language, mate.
So what if they speak Scots first? It’s being recognised as an official language too nowÂ
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