Dear Colleagues,
If you have not seen it yet, you might find this article in "The Guardian" interesting and entertaining:
https://tinyurl.com/linguaphobia
One interesting quote:
"A 2017 British Council report recommended that the top five languages needed by the UK 'for prosperity and influence' post-Brexit are Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, French, Arabic and German."
Best wishes,
Falco
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Dr Falco Pfalzgraf
• Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor (German Linguistics) [SLLF]
• Associate Director of Taught Programmes (PGT) [SLLF]
• Convenor of the Language and Linguistics Section at the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations [CAGCR]
• Chairman of the London/UK branch of the Association for the German Language / Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache [GfdS]
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http://webspace.qmul.ac.uk/fpfalzgraf
Queen Mary, University of London
School of Languages, Linguistics and Film
Mile End Campus / Mile End Road
LONDON E1 4NS
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