The cost of Britons’ failure to learn foreign languages
Native English speakers can’t simply rely on the rest of the world’s desire to learn their language, say Gabrielle Hogan-Brun and Jennifer Jenkins, while Jane Sjögren quotes Nelson Mandela on the importance of linguistic skills and Trevor Stevens says learning a foreign language should be compulsory at General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) The UK is not only “mired in the...