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Moving to a new country and complaining that not all jobs and services are provided to you in your own foreign language comes across as entitled. Of course you
by david-gpu 6y ago
Moving to a new country and complaining that not all jobs and services are provided to you in your own foreign language comes across as entitled.
Of course you need to learn the language of the nation that hosts you. You are an immigrant.
- alibarber 6y agoNot sure people are complaining as such. And these comments are on a piece from a country's government that is literally offering to pay people to move there. It's more of a word of warning, Finnish is a difficult language for a native English speaker to learn compared to, say, French, or even Swedish. Something like Spanish is spoken by a massive number of people in multiple nations - Finnish only in one small one. I try and get by with Finnish when I can, but at the end of the day I still have a rather taxing (hah) job to do full time and I came here by choice so I want to enjoy it.
- vinay427 6y ago> compared to, say, French, or even Swedish. I'm not sure the "even" is actually appropriate here. Both Swedish and French (along with probably every other Western European Indo-European language) are among the easiest for English speakers to learn. Swedish also has a disproportionate amount of resources online due in part to immigration patterns, as I understand it.
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- emj 6y agoEuropean countries are currently required to translate information about all government services to english because of the european "Single Digital Gateway". Well it's a goal; first mile stone comes in this december.