Learning languages is about more than vocabulary tests – it gives you insight into a culture beyond your own Read more at: https://inews.co.uk/opinion/comment/learning-languages-insight-cultures/Learning languages is about more than vocabulary tests – it gives you insight into a culture beyond your own

i News – Gwen Smith

“Quelle horreur! Half of sixth forms have been forced to scrap A-levels in modern languages because of “inadequate” funding, according to a poll this week by the Sixth Form Colleges Association. Spanish, German and French, which is one of my old subjects, have been hardest hit. Now, my schoolgirl self may have declared this news magnifique, particularly if there was a fiendish grammar test on the horizon. (I’m still scarred, Madame Barton.) But now that my world view encompasses slightly more than the next exam, the news has left me extremely triste. It’s both an academic tragedy and a funding travesty, because learning a language is about far more than memorising verbs.” (more)