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Emeritus Prof Christopher May · 5w
There is a direct contradiction between claims for a post-Brexit Global Britain & the continuing decline in the teaching of foreign languages across the education system (from schools to universities)...
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@nprofile1q... Why can't anyone get their head around the fact that young people prefer to use their phone to deal with foreign languages? Translation tools are better than ever before, it's not difficult to find language schools in target language countries to study at for far less than a university degree. Unless you have a burning passion for 15th century Danish poetry, there's no need to do a whole degree in Scandinavian languages when you can just go online & learn Danish from Danish speakers
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That’s a moray · 5w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqg0tuf634rz4suczwj7kgnecr6cyt0eu9xmp3sp0fku68mqehq4mstcx9tq Language us a tool for communication, but it's never been the case that university degrees in languages focus on communication ability. In the first year there's some of that and then it...