Official Languages

official languages: Language gap poses health-care issue, March 30, according to The Star. And which languages do you want? Besides Mandarin, Spanish and Hindi, how about Arabic, Somali, Amharic, Swahili, Hausa, Yoruba, Shona, Ndebele? Zimbabwe has 16 official languages. After Grade 4, all children there are educated in English and Re: Language gap poses health-care issue, March 30 Surely an effort to become semi-fluent in one of our Official Languages is not too much to ask of people wanting to make Canada their home? Is it fair to expect medical staff to speak many languages? They already have to keep up with so much new technology. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.