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fromwww.bbc.com
4 days ago

The campaign for Romanian to become a GCSE option

A campaign seeks to add Romanian as a GCSE option, citing 2021 census data showing 159,000 Romanian speakers in London as the second most-spoken language after English.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Spanish is clearly now the world's coolest language. So why do we push British children to learn French? | Gary Nunn

Now, Gary, repeat after me: Quiero una margarita, por favor, my Spanish tutor instructs. I cringe at the butchered Spanglish my estuary accent produces. Like Del Boy Trotter ordering a cocktail: Key yeah row oon margari'a, pour far four. It's 2023, I'm 41, living in Argentina and battling the frustration and disempowerment of learning a new language at this age, longing for my elastic 11-year-old brain over this husked-out mush.
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