Photo by Karen Rubado
As some of you may know, I’m a bit of a language geek. I studied French at school, dropped it after GCSEs, and two years later picked up Portuguese and Spanish in my own time. Oh, and I gave French another go.
It just seemed to click this time around, something I can’t say happened during my school days. I was an ‘A’ student at French but upon reflection couldn’t describe my ability as anything higher than ‘lower intermediate’ at the time, despite being exposed to French Creole at home.
What’s the point of learning a language at school then? After 11 years of French, from primary through to secondary school, one would expect an ‘A’ student to have the ability to do more across the Channel than buy a “pain au chocolat” at the local boulangerie. Continue reading »
