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《中英對照讀新聞》Swiss tell German guy to learn German瑞士政府叫德國移民去學德文

◎俞智敏

A 70-year old German seeking Swiss citizenship was told to go back to school to learn his own native tongue despite being proficient in German, a Swiss newspaper said.

一名七十歲的德籍男子在申請瑞士公民資格時，被要求返校學習他的母語，儘管他早已精通德語，根據一家瑞士報紙報導說。

The Swiss town of Dielsdorf ordered Ulrich Kring -- who lived in Switzerland his entire life but is only now applying for citizenship -- to take a German language course to the tune of 250 Swiss francs, the Tages-Anzeiger newspaper said.

瑞士的迪爾斯朵夫鎮最近下令，畢生都住在瑞士、但直到現在才申請瑞士公民資格的克林恩，必須花250瑞士法郎去上德文課，據每日導報報導說。

The class was obligatory for all foreigners seeking a Swiss passport and the town would not make an exception for the German national, the newspaper said.

所有申請瑞士護照的外國人都必須去上課，而該鎮也不願為德國籍的克林恩破例。

Roughly two-thirds of Switzerland’s 7.5 million inhabitants are German speakers. Many German nationals find the Swiss spoken dialect hard to understand, although the official written language taught in schools is the same as in Germany.

在瑞士的750萬居民中，約有三分之二的人說德語。許多德國人認為，瑞士人說的德語方言很難懂，不過瑞士學校裡所教授的書寫用德文則跟德國相同。

There is a hot debate about immigration in Switzerland, where some 20 percent of the population are foreigners, and some newspapers have criticized the big influx of immigrants from neighboring Germany.

瑞士目前有20% 的人口為外國人，移民問題在瑞士國內正引發激辯，不少報紙都曾批評大量移民自鄰近的德國湧入瑞士。

新聞辭典

proficient：精通的、熟練的（常接at或in），如She’s proficient in two languages.（她精通兩種語言。）或It takes a couple of years of regular driving before you become proficient at it.（你得經常開車好幾年，駕駛技術才能真正熟練。）

to the tune：片語，指總數，如The City Council had financed the new building to the tune of over 4 million dollars.（市政府總共資助了逾400萬元來興建這棟新大樓。）

influx：名詞，指（河川）匯集、（大量人或事的）湧入，如an influx of foreign capital（外資大量湧入），an influx of customers（顧客蜂擁而入）。