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February 27, 2005
Decline in language studies
It’s strange, the world is getting smaller, we communicate more, we travel more, we do more international business - and yet we are making less effort to study foreign languages.
The number of undergraduates studying foreign languages in Britain has fallen by 15 per cent in the last six years according to a study by the University Council of Modern Languages cited by the Guardian.
What are the reasons for this?
www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1424772,00.html?gusrc=rss
Posted by Simon Holledge at February 27, 2005 08:38 PM
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