<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">​The Case for Language Learning​</div><br><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><b>Don't neglect the UK's indigenous languages</b></font><br>
Yes, we should learn French and German – but we shouldn't ignore our indigenous languages<br><br>Rhona NicDhùghaill<br><a href="http://theguardian.com">theguardian.com</a>, Tuesday 29 October 2013 05.41 EDT<div><br></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px">Would you be surprised if I told you that, far from being a land of monoglots, there are ten indigenous </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/languages" title="More from the Guardian on Languages" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(0,86,137);text-decoration:none;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px;background-repeat:no-repeat no-repeat">languages</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:18px"> 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.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;display:inline">
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