Analysis and Comment
German comedian and broadcaster Henning Wehn explores the fast-growing use of ELF - English as a lingua franca
In a recent speech outlining Britain’s anti-extremism strategy entitled A Stronger Britain, Built On Our Values, the home secretary, Theresa May, identified five “British values” that “are the means by which we have made our multi-racial, multi-cultural and multi-religious society succeed”
In the last couple of years public services in the UK have been under an increasing pressure to review their procedures for language support they offer to speakers of other languages.
I remember this article in the Daily Telegraph in February 2013 when a company was fined and convicted of breaching health and safety laws by using Google Translate. In February 2015 I see a tweet that a Google translated text was handed as evidence to a judge.
