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Language Barriers Add to Migrants’ Difficulties in Europe

The journey for the tens of thousands fleeing conflict in the Middle East is already difficult, but their challenges are compounded by an inability to communicate with locals in Europe. Getting aid from a relief camp becomes a struggle. Elsewhere in Belgrade, a family sits by the roadside asking directions to a nearby hotel. Both instances are made worse due to a language barrier   Most migrants speak Arabic or Pashto, languages not common in Europe.   At a park in...


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