‘I just need a connection’: the refugees teaching languages across borders

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Louisa Waugh and Ghaith Alhallak have met for language lessons in seven countries. We counted it up the other day," says Waugh, recalling the list of places from which she has video-called Alhallak: Britain, Mali, Senegal and Greece. Alhallak has answered from Lebanon, France and Italy, where he is now studying for a master's degree in political science at the University of Padua.

You just need a connection," he says.