£100million is a lot of money for the government to be spending on translators - and they think it might be three times that amount!
For at the moment they have no way of calculating, they just know it's huge!' If you ran a business like these people run government departments you'd be on your backside.
Now any right-minded person would think there is a simple answer to this problem - everyone should speak English and if they can't then let them be taught.
Not being able to speak the language of the indigenous population puts you, by the law of averages, on the way to becoming a second-class citizen.
The inability to converse freely is a drawback to friendship, to success, to education, so it must be the prime concern of the host nation to ensure that all its people speaks as one.
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