http://www.opendemocracy.net/learn_urdu_not_french_0 Comments for "Learn Urdu Not French, " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/learn_urdu_not_french_0 Established 1981 London School of Islamics An Educational Trust 63 Margery Park Road London E7 9LD Email: info@londonschoolofislamics.org.uk www.londonschoolofislamics.org.uk Tel/Fax: 0208 555 2733 / 07817 112 667 Learn Urdu Not French Bilingualism is not a problem, it is an asset. As so many pupils in UK have English as a second language or alternative language. We should be celebrating the fact that we have such a diverse language culture in our schools. Indeed, we should try to encourage some of our monolingual native pupils to join in the learning of a community language. Five of the languages that are gaining in popularity are Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, Russian and Urdu. The future for languages in the United Kingdom is very bright, if we abandon the notion that we have to stick rigidly to French and German. &nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/learn_urdu_not_french_0" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/learn_urdu_not_french_0">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/learn_urdu_not_french_0#comment Europe &amp; Islam faith &amp; ideas Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:26:02 +0100 info_28 31893 at http://www.opendemocracy.net