This is as well as the more common foreign languages of Urdu, Punjabi and Polish.

Mixed: Schoolchildren in Reading use 150 different languages. (Posed by models)

The survey in Reading, Berkshire, shows how schools are being put under mounting pressure by the rising levels of pupils who do not speak English as their first language.

In a bid to ease the burden, Reading Borough Council, is offering discounted English lessons for both children and adults.

The aim is to get children, whose command of English is often much better, to help their families learn it.

Lesley Reilly, head of adult learning at the authority, said: ‘Our aim is to involve stakeholders in community groups across the town to encourage people to join the English classes.

'Our target is to reach more men, unemployed people, learners recently arrived in Reading and parents of primary pupils.’

The classes are being run as part of English for Speakers of Other Languages, a government initiative to encourage people to integrate in the community.

The Government described the number of languages and dialects spoken by pupils in Reading as 'extraordinary' and conceded that it would place schools under extra pressure.

The figures suggest that language barriers are making it increasingly difficult for teachers to communicate with their pupils.

It was revealed in 2005 that pupils at Woodside High School in Tottenham, north London, spoke as many as 58 languages, with many arriving at the comprehensive unable to speak any English.

Pupils at a primary school in the West Midlands were found to speak 33 different languages in 2003.

Conservative MP Philip Davies said: 'It's very worrying and Labour's lax immigration policies are a huge factor in this.

'It is also a result of political correctness. We haven't really made people integrate properly into British society.’

A fucking disgrace!

Liberal3801 wrote:

A fucking disgrace!

it's fucking 'ascusting'

If they can't speak English, they shouldn't be allowed into school.

making them speak english is racism. Duh. We have this all figured out here in the US.

Read the bible,... (Genesis 11:4).

BurnParis wrote:

Read the bible,... (Genesis 11:4).

I have no problems with 'lets build ourselves a city' I just dont want the city here - let it be somewhere in europe fLance or italy etc

Speak English, or fuck off.

Dewi_Sant wrote:

The town where school pupils speak 150 different languages - OK were fucked

Dewi,
don't you think your thread is rather ironic coming from somebody so proud to speak Gaelic, a regional dialect?

I wonder if they speak Prophet's language there too?

Easy

Se Hablor Espanol, ce Supersize?



[I speak not a whit of Spanish, exceot for pushing 2 on the phone to fuck with them]