De tradus textul:
The new speakers of English We're beginning to do things the English way. We even went to Spain on holiday this year!' Natalie
Napier talks to a brother and sister who have made the most of their new country. Four years after she and her family arrived in Britain from Poland with only some English, eighteen-year-old Joasia Kossowska has been accepted by Cambridge University to read law. Her younger brother Piotr, fifteen, has won a scholarship to a public school. He has been visiting museums all summer: his ambition is to become an artist. When the family emigrated to Britain, Joasia and Piotr went to a local school. For the first year they had to have special English classes but within a year they were overtaking their fellow pupils. "When we left Poland l was attending Szkota Podstawowa, that's sort of like secondary school in Britain. I had done Russian for three years but didn't know very much English," says Joasia. When we started the English lessons l studied the same way I had studied Russian. You know, grammar exercises, lists of word. But I also had to talk, talk, talk from the start. needed to make friends!