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  • “We need to make more of our children multilingual”

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    Thus ran the Daily Telegraph’s headline (October 19) over an article by Peter Tait, former headmaster of Sherborne School. The article contained all the usual “mom and apple pie” arguments on why our children should be learning foreign languages: “You can never understand one language until you understand at least two”. Well, hurrah for that little gem. The paper reported

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  • “Once more unto the breach” in English

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    A fascinating story in the Sunday Times (October 25 2015). From the Norman Conquest to the 15C the language of the English court and the nobility was of course French. Not too many people are aware of this, possibly due to the way they teach history these days but it was a fact that English was definitely the language of

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  • The plight of the Afghan interpreters (continued)

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    The Daily Mail’s campaign “Betrayal of the Brave” to persuade Mr Cameron and his colleagues to grant Afghan interpreters asylum in the UK seems to be paying off. (see our blogs The plight of Afghani  interpreters (continued), Afghani interpreters still left to their fate, John Oliver on “Translators”: The plight of  Afghani interpreters). The paper reports (October 17) that “Sam”, whose life was

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