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People from all over the world live in Britain. These young people were all born in Britain, but their parents or grandparents are from other countries.

2 - Mei’s family is from Singapore. They live in Birmingham. Her parents work in a hospital there. ‘I speak English and Chinese,’ says Mei. ‘We always speak Chinese at home, but at school i only speak English. Some of my friends are Chinese, too, but we always speak English to each other.’

3 - Desmond’s grandparents are from Nigeria in Africa. Desmond lives in Manchester. ‘Everyone in Nigeria speaks English. It’s the national language,’ he says. ‘There are a lot of African languages there, too, but I don’t speak any of them. I only speak English. I’m learning French at school.’

4 - Kathir lives in Oxford. His parents are from Sri Lanka. ‘We speak English at home,’ he says. ‘My parents also speak Tamil — an Indian language — but I don’t. I can speak Spanish. We learn it at school and it’s my favourite subject.’

5 - This is Emre. His family is from Turkey. ‘There are a lot of Turkish people in our part of London, so I speak English and Turkish. I speak English most of the time, but we visit my grandparents in Turkey every year and they don’t speak English.’

People from Britain live and work in other countries, too. Most of them go to other English-speaking countries — Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada and the USA. A lot of people from Britain now live and work in other European countries, too.