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​The Case for Language Learning​

*Don't neglect the UK's indigenous languages*
Yes, we should learn French and German – but we shouldn't ignore our
indigenous languages

Rhona NicDhùghaill
theguardian.com, Tuesday 29 October 2013 05.41 EDT

Would you be surprised if I told you that, far from being a land of
monoglots, there are ten indigenous
languages<http://www.theguardian.com/education/languages> spoken
today in the British Isles? Yet we are very quick to tell ourselves that
we're rubbish at languages. We are linguistically isolated monoglots,
marooned on a cluster of islands on the edge of the Atlantic. If we were in
the mix of mainland Europe, we tell ourselves, we'd be blethering away in
at least two languages.
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