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UK's international education body highlights most important foreign languages to learn
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<p>British Council report calls on report calls on policymakers to
introduce a broader range of languages into every child's education</p>
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Wednesday 20 November 2013
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<p>Arabic is ranked as a more important language for children to learn
in school than French in a report published by the British Council
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<p>The study, Languages for the Future, also rates Mandarin as more
vital than German to the UK over the next 20 years. Spanish, though, is
considered the most important language to learn.</p><p>The report calls on policymakers to introduce a broader range of languages into every child's education.</p><p>"The
problem isn't that we're teaching the wrong languages because the most
widely-taught languages like French, Spanish and German all feature in
our top ten," said John Worne, director of strategy at the British
Council, the UK's international organisation for educational
opportunities and cultural relations.</p><p>"But the UK needs more
people to take up the opportunity to learn and, crucially, get using
these languages - along with new ones like Arabic, Chinese and Japanese.</p><p>"If
we don't act to tackle this shortfall, we'll lose out both economically
and culturally. Schools have their job to do but it's also a problem
of complacency, confidence and culture - which policy makers,
businesses, parents and everyone else in the UK can help to fix."</p><p>The
British Council report compiled its top 10 of the most useful languages
to learn by using a sophisticated ranking system - which gave weight
for current export links with the countries concerned, UK government
trade priorities, diplomatic and security priorities and holiday
destinations.</p><p>It concluded the UK had an "alarming" shortage of
people able to speak any of the 10 languages identified - with
three-quarters of the population unable to speak any of the languages
fluently enough to hold a conversation in them.</p><p>French was the
only language where fluent speakers were in double figures (15 per
cent). It was followed by German (six per cent), Spanish (four per
cent) Italian (two per cent) and Arabic, Mandarin, Russian and Japanese
(all one per cent). Fewer than one in 100 could speak Portuguese or
Turkish, which made up the 10.</p><p>According to figures from the Joint
Council for Qualification - the umbrella body representing exam boards,
less than half of GCSE students (44 per cent) took a language exam this
summer despite an improvement on recent years.</p><p>Even football
chiefs joined in the condemnation of the UK's performance in languages
with Martyn Heather, head of education at the Premier League, warning a
lack of language skills would make it difficult for UK players to play
or coach abroad.</p><p>"Language skills are just as important for a
young aspiring footballer as they are for someone who wants to enter the
world of international commerce," he added.</p><p>"Being able to speak another language opens up a world of opportunities to play and coach in football leagues across the globe."</p><p>On
Arabic, the report said: "Six Arabic speaking countries appear among
the UK's top 50 export market in goods with a combined value to the
economy of over £12 billion - more than the value of UK exports to
Spain, China or Italy ..</p><p>"Arabic has emerged as one of the
priority languages for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. It is their
intention to increase the number of diplomats trained in Arabic by 40
per cent."</p><p>On Mandarin, it adds: "Given its rapid growth and
status as a major emerging power, the business opportunities and
challenges in China are great."</p><p>A spokesman for the Department for
Education said its reforms - masking languages compulsory from the age
of seven and included it as a compulsory subject for the English
Baccalaureate league table ranking - "will ensure that hundreds and
thousands more young people will study languages every year".</p>
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