Want a truly mind-expanding experience? Learn another language | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett from Science | The Guardian on (#4JGGZ)
That Brexit has put British pupils off studying languages is tragic - it's not just great for your brain, it opens up whole new worlds
More than half the world's people speak more than one language, and I am one of them: I speak English, Welsh, French and Italian, and wish that I could speak more.
Being able to speak more than one language has opened up whole worlds of experience and understanding - so it is particularly saddening then to see reports that Brexit is putting British pupils off studying modern foreign languages at school. Some parents have even told teachers that it's useless for their children to learn another language now that the UK is leaving the European Union.
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