Let me be the alternative voice.
If people choose not to learn the language of a country they should not be forced to do so.
I fully agree that they would probably be more happy if they did so and could participate in society more actively but its not to other people to force them.
I am not sure what I lose out on if immigrants do not speak my language.
I have lived on the dutch antilles for over 3 years and choice not to learn the local language . The local language is only spoken by about 300k people and I was still able to communicate with everybody in either dutch, english or spanish. Why break my head over the local language when I had so much other things going on and knowing that my stay is only temporarely?
