I disagree. When we went to India we didn’t have the faintest idea of any Hindi.
Instead, we just kept putting our hands together (like praying) and all the women put strings of flowers around our necks.
Probably because there are more Brits than Diegos in Benidorm!
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Oh, don’t say ‘the end of your life’ OGF. You’ll probably live for donkeys’ years yet.
And as for religious instruction, I used to like some fairy stories when I was a young child but I’ve grown out of them now.
On the other hand, I have watched a film where the British (mostly Welsh) soldiers were singing ‘Men of Harlech’ to a lot of natives who were coming to kill them. I think they were trying to entertain them but it didn’t seem to work, though they got away with it at the end and, as a bonus, eleven of them (I think) were awarded VCs for their excellent rendition.
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I don’t see the need unless going to live in another country or just for work.
At school it was french but couldn’t learn it, I wasn’t going anywhere anyway so why bother.
My dad used to say that they should speak english.
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We have been going to Turkey for over 30 years and I have picked up a bit of Turkish. I listen to CDs of the language to help with the pronunciation. It is quite a simple language to learn the basics. I have friends over there who I exchange messages with which helps a lot. I still could not hold a long conversation with a Turk though but I get by. My wife keeps telling me I should master the Queen’s English first. I suppose Doric is my native dialect.
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Was that film Zulu?
Doric is beautiful 
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That about sums us up as a national doesnt it ? 
I did use Algebra quite a lot. And you have to think with it.
My father and his family spoke Gaelic and English. In fact their English was better than many other parts of the country.
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Well I often just make things up and hope that I’m either inadvertently right or that nobody will question it. That also requires thinking. 
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À chacun son goût…
Well said, Besoeker. 
Yes. Part of it was a singing contest, though the natives’ song wasn’t very musical. In fact, I think they were a bit upset at not sounding as good as the Brits, so they came and attacked them.
That’s one good thing about the Welsh: they’re very musical
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Gout? Isn’t that when you have painful legs?
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That too!
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There are a lot of good things about the Welsh 
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Quite a few. Katherine Jenkins, Tom Jones, Dinorwig Power Station, Cardiff Bar Mill to name but a few. All good. But…
A colleague and I were commissioning a project at the Bar Mill. Come lunch time we strolled to a local pub. We got a few dirty looks and they all started to converse in Welsh. I thought that was a bit unsociable, rude even. Maybe it was us - I’m a Scot and my colleague is Irish…
I love the male Welsh singers.