The Guardian – Nigel Vincent
“…why would an international business hire a monolingual English speaker when it can hire a bilingual, trilingual or quadrilingual German, Swede, Korean or Chinese? When it comes to international employment, by sitting on our linguistic laurels we disadvantage the United Kingdom…the fact that we have English only, whereas others have very good English plus another language, means that they are ahead of the game, and we need to catch up.”(more)