Should Germans stop speaking English in Berlin? A podcast extra
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محتوای ارائه شده توسط Brussels2Berlin, Dave Keating, and Tyson Barker. تمام محتوای پادکست شامل قسمتها، گرافیکها و توضیحات پادکست مستقیماً توسط Brussels2Berlin, Dave Keating, and Tyson Barker یا شریک پلتفرم پادکست آنها آپلود و ارائه میشوند. اگر فکر میکنید شخصی بدون اجازه شما از اثر دارای حق نسخهبرداری شما استفاده میکند، میتوانید روندی که در اینجا شرح داده شده است را دنبال کنید.https://fa.player.fm/legal
Jens Spahn, a rising star in Angela Merkel's CDU party, has caused a stir by writing an editorial blasting Germans in Berlin for speaking English with foreigners - and even amongst each other. Calling them "elitist hipsters", he said the use of English across Europe is actually turning into a tool for exclusion, refusing to help foreigners from integrating by helping them to learn the local language. Is he right? Dave Keating and Tyson Barker join special guest Jon Worth, another anglophone expat living in Berlin, to discuss what this is really all about. It has a lot more to do with the changing nature of German politics, animosity between Berliners and the rest of Germany, and the strange beast that the hauptstadt has developed into.
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