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Andorra requires foreigners living there to speak Catalan

Catalan is the official language of the 468-square-kilometer Andorra, which lies between France and Spain’s Catalonia region, but its use has declined in recent years. The purpose of the law is to maintain the status of this language. Of the 80,000 Andorran residents, about half are citizens of this country. The country is also home … Read more

BB.lv: “In Germany they would quickly be forced to speak German”

“The fact that people do not want to learn a language in the country where they live is generally impossible in other countries. Here we must take into account the fact that we have a lot of Russian speakers, I don’t know, about 40% according to statistics. About 60% versus 40%. If they lived in … Read more