
Most of the immigrants came to study . There are about 300,000 Chinese in the Uk, most of them can be seen in birmigham, liverpool, london, manchester and Newcastle. In london cantonese was the eleventh most widely spoken language in a 2000 survey of school children, with the highest proportion living in hackey, southwark,lambeth and greenwich. They have interesting festivals which entertains other community groups like the chinese new year and the dragon boat festival. these festivals also helps in reviving the culture and language of the people.Funny enough chinese writing system is built around different variety of characters which have no relation to the spoken word.
chinese festivalsgoogle(2011)pics of chinese people. www.bbc.co.uk/voices/multilingual