Time Realistically: Britain cannot be a great world player unless we speak many languages ​​| Sophia Smith Galer

LThe users of people tell me not to learn languages ​​- including my father. “You don't have to be gentle as a speaker,” I remember saying that I would pick up my university degree. “Why are you going to have a girl?”

More than ten times past, I have found many treasures. I've been working on Madrid and Madrid and English to Syrian sons' not left from the remote schools of Beirut. I have provided the silt of stirring auditors in UN, and I taught the media on the most dangerous city in Ecuador. I've been aware of the men I've been looking for, bite men I haven't decided, cooked music, all languages, all in the language is not my language. And most of all all? I have changed my father's mind.

Nick Gibb, schools of school, was right this week He told the time That the UK decrease in the language learning language is “to waste our profile to be the world player”. Our world watching are more strange than lying; In Europe, we're between less speaking the second language. Brits were not a few poor teachers – in 1997, we arrived A Place While 82% of boys and girls were entered in modern language in GCSE – but by 2018, that spoiled up to 50% of all girls, only 38% of boys.

Many Demoction of Language Learning – Once the guardians, the leaders would be, young teens of Jane AFAfon until today, are always fixed slightly than other subjects.

But instead of adjusted to generous test, I challenge the research test who is the language test and more, or to improve the highest schools, 2004 of the Overl. It has been a very frustrating problem since then.

Some languages ​​are doing better than others; Spanish take to healthy and growingWhen the French seems to settle after a large drop. Germanic texts in GCSE falls quickly even Being the most common language in the UK in advertising. The worst thing, we seem to be in prison, where learning reuses the language of languages. the number of 11 children who learn a language in GCSE in the developing place They live around 46-47% compared to the wealthy areas, which stand intensely percentage of 20 percent.

In short, low language lifters to GCSE for causing a building continuously-in the middle of a university and university. Although most people are going to university, the use of mobile philosophers have passed over several years in the past six years. Universities – especially post-1992 – save dispose of modern departments. Hardly BREEXIT probably colieging Will help, lose the opportunity to be connected to the outside study.

I was privileged to go to the school that was in the language where languages, but I was gaining a fan of the weapon of many weapons, something Researchers have said Make students in England very much for studying many languages. Where my father did not see a little price, my mother – well-speaking in Italy and the minor language that did not have to be with the Laguria language.

Without the Spanish, Arabic I was in the age of 18, Arabic I was 18 and in Italian situated and I can not be a reporter or my person. There is no need for the passage of my conversation or what I have been able to read; It's because of today's production that follows the study. The languages ​​listed between the employer is not a word and temptation, but because of the gentle of the skills that will find you – new ideas that are interested in many cultures.

Most people find all the functions needed, as well as beneficial related skills from each other from the heavy area To delay alzheimer's effects. Any banks who think that they can rely on English only as they walk as hard as they are forced, or when they expect they cannot help people at home. Early in the famous Chithueliwrite, the tube stopped me because they were lost trying to go to the hospital. Unfortunately I just know what I can say bog Music is “I don't speak Portuguese” – but my skilled Spani means we can understand each other, and I can tell who to stop.

Even the odd experiments of English languages ​​in 2010s, what is happening in UK Swaple to the App Speroine associated with what politics meets.

So what do we solve the matter? Recent recent report Instructions, by delivery of a lot of expensive lists of tags to attracts the gaps and to be a language learner as a training center of a classroom.

I have additional thoughts, since and respect the differences of the statement of the language brings to the UK. We say wrongly that Western worlds need to move to English overly, not even to make parts of several layers, second and fourth generations. Leading in the gaps of the hand, so that the entire UK government and international friends can handle, make up the unit and their family relationships.

Count our natural languages ​​to become just the beginning, too; When Keir Starmer Tuveed “If you want to be in the UK, you need to speak English” This year, the thoughts of our released worldwide countries do not forget to Wel'shing Welshing, Gaelic and Scots.

Combine contributors to our country with our old languages ​​and one as sooner realizes that UK is not short as we can imagine. A tightly baptism As a British state may be angry or distracting many. But – as I depend on and adorn to you in the four languages ​​I speak – so that why we should do it.

• Sophia Smith Galer is a news replium and the Creator of things. His Book Second, How to kill languagewill be the next year