Having a diverse origin of inhabitants is a plus for many places. It makes them more interesting, gives more opportunities to practise language skills, etc.

I live near Manchester now and it's great for that, although I do recognise the opposite exists, too! (I live in Bolton which has huge, not-particularly-integrated minority populations). By contrast, when I go to visit my parents in another part of England, it's all just beige boring people that haven't ever left this corner of the world

As a pretty multilingual person, just being multilingual isn't enough. You need qualifications/experience in something else. Especially if your first language is English - companies don't care to hire you over the non-native whose English is 'good enough' (because, to be fair, it often is.

edit: happy to be proven wrong - if you need an English/German/Spanish/Italian speaker and you pay better than the Civil Service - drop me a line 😉

In capitalist America, president gropes you!

Not technically the Onion I suppose, but it is the German equivalent.

English 'against' is much less flexible in this context than German 'gegen'. A jet being 'against' Russia implies the jet holds a negative opinion of Russia. (c.f. English 'what can we do about ____?' vs. German 'was kann man für/gegen ____ tun?')

Good grief. I went into this thinking 'wash delicates' was some kind of Australian idiom, perhaps related to the people whose jobs are under threat shitting themselves. That university is wild for suggesting this.

this is a region switcher, rather than a language switcher (the website may of course be conflating the two, though)