>>Bolivian authorities and civil cervants are to learn an indigenous language - be it Quechua, Aymara or Guaraní - within a timeframe of 2 years. Or else.
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>>Here is one link:
http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B4ECC940F-6295-4485-86FD-A76AE7207810%7D)&language=EN
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>Not much on there but a paragraph of foreign. Anyway, the seems notion seems a bit weird; it's like forcing the British govt to learn Welsh or Cornish :-)
Well, that would get the government more in touch with the people, right?
At least, that is what Evo might be thinking.
Note that here in Bolivia, there are probably millions of people who don't speak Spanish well, or not at all; so in this sense, the situation might be somewhat different than in the UK - where I suspect that most people do speak English.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
