Time for a tit-for-tat expat language test?

Should Britons buying a home on the Costa del Sol have to learn Spanish? Photograph: The Travel Library/Rex

Now that the courts have decided that people wishing to move here to join their spouses from abroad should be able to demonstrate a fluency in English (Report, 19 November), should we assume that British people wishing to buy houses in France, Spain, Portugal etc must acquire a similar fluency in the language of that country?
Andrew Sutton
Seavington St Mary, Somerset

• When we got married in 1973, we were able to combine our two size 4 Bayko sets (Letters, 17 November). A marriage built to last.
Norma and John Reed
Bradford

• God knows (Letters, 19 November).
Fr Alec Mitchell
Manchester

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