Jackie: You're listening to Talk About English. I'm Jackie Dalton.
Callum: I'm Callum Robertson.
Jackie: And our guests today are Karen O'Brien. Regional Editor for the BBC's Arabic Region, Kaz Janowski our Polish expert and Stefan Roemermann, an English learner.
We had lots of great entries to our eye witness report competition. But we had to narrow it down to one winner and we did this with the help of Alex Ritson, the BBC editor who appeared on the programme a few weeks ago with tips on how to write good eye witness reports. He's very kindly selected a winner for us, and here he is: Alex
Callum: Thanks to Alex Ritson, a BBC editor for that.
Callum: You can find a link on our site to the stories we just talked about there. Thank you for all your entries to the competition, there were all sorts of interesting stories. If you didn't win, don't let that put you off, try again next time – we'll be bringing you details of our next competition soon – this will relate to films, so keep your eyes open for that.
Jackie: Stefan we set you a task – you had to come up with a neutral way of saying: 'The terrorists say they won't liberate him until their legitimate demands are agreed to '.
Jackie: What’s wrong with this and how might you re-phrase it?
Stefan: (responds)
Karen: (what do you think?)
Jackie: So far we’ve looked at Poland and the media and but what something that doesn't make the headlines here quite so often, but certainly does in Poland, and that's the effect of Poles leaving their country on Poland.
We've talked a lot so far about how many Poles come to work in the UK as builders, plumbers, doing jobs that people originally from here don't want to do, but I think it's important to remember that it's not just the lower wage jobs that are being taken – Poland is seeing many of it's highly qualified teachers, doctors, lawyer and other professionals leave.
The Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Education minister Roman Giertych is one person who's worried about this – Poland is suffering from a serious 'brain drain'. A brain drain – Callum?
Callum: (explains)
Jackie: The education minister is worried about the brain drain. As you listen to him answer this question. \ Callum: What does he hope will happen in the coming years?
Roman Giertych Against Poland participation in EU, hopes many people or heir children come back with money, experience know-how But many never come back for GB that's good news they are very active very intelligent one of reasons western governments wanted Poland in the EU. Maybe needed programme against brain drain.