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Why You Should Learn A Foreign Language
As a linguist, I am biased, but I think it’s a fair statement to say that speaking foreign languages is a highly desirable trait in today’s globalised and ever-more-connected world....
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Why You Should Learn… Mandarin Chinese
Following on from my post last week about learning a foreign language, (Why You Should Learn a Foreign Language), here’s the first post in a series on the top 10 most spoken languages in the world....
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Why You Should Learn… Spanish
Following on from my post last week about learning Mandarin Chinese, here’s the second post in my series on the top 10 most spoken languages in the world. No. 2: Spanish 420 million native...
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Why You Should Learn… English
Following on from my post last week about learning Spanish, here’s the third post in my series on the top 10 most spoken languages in the world. No. 3: English 360 million native speakers, circa 1.5...
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Why You Should Learn… Arabic
Following on from my post last week about learning Hindi, Bengali or Punjabi, here’s the fifth post in my series on the top 10 most spoken languages in the world. No. 5: Arabic 232 million...
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Why You Should Learn… Portuguese
Following on from my post last week about learning Arabic, here’s the sixth post in my series on the top 10 most spoken languages in the world. No. 7: Portuguese 178 million native speakers,...
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Why You Should Learn… Russian
Following on from my post last week about learning Portuguese, here’s the seventh post in my series on the top 10 most spoken languages in the world. No. 8: Russian 144 million native...
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Why You Should Learn… Japanese
Following on from my post last week about learning Russian, here’s the eighth post in my series on the top 10 most spoken languages in the world. No. 9: Japanese 122 million native speakers,...
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Why You Should Learn… German, French & Italian
Having completed the series and profiled all of the top 10 most spoken languages in the world, here’s my final post on your three most popular European Languages to learn, according to...
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4 Steps to Pick-up a Language you Haven’t Learned Since School
A popular goal on many people’s New Year’s Resolutions list is to learn a foreign language. As a nation, we Brits seem to really struggle with foreign languages, so much so that apparently only 25% of...
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The Well-Travelled Podcast Episode 8: 4 steps to learn a foreign language
Episode 8 of The Well-Travelled Podcast is now live! It’s all about how to actually set about learning a foreign language, based on my experience in gaining (and importantly maintaining) fluency in 3...
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Career talk: My experiences working internationally, jobs with languages and...
Today marks the start of National Careers Week here in the UK. I’m passionate about developing my own career and about supporting others to do the same, which I do through mentoring female students at...
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