I READ in disbelief the letter from M Nagdee (LET November 13). In any country you must have the basic indigenous language to survive.
My grandfather was wounded in the Great War in Flanders in 1914. He was evacuated to Cambridge, England, to convalesce. He married my grandmother with very little English spoken, but he soon learnt the language.
There were no other Belgians in Blackburn whom he could turn to to translate. He became a tram driver for the old Blackburn tram system.
Imagine if he could not speak the basic language. It does not matter which century you are living in, if you can't grasp the indigenous language then no matter who you are you have no chance.
TONY VAN-DER-LINDEN, Balmoral Crescent, Blackburn.
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