Newswire – D.E. Brown
“The marketplace has gone global. Business is no longer restricted by as many geographic or language boundaries…Arabic and Mandarin have risen in popularity with British students. This is good news as these languages are very important to the UK’s future…Unfortunately the increased business interest in these languages doesn’t help the overall decline in students studying foreign languages at school…Britain could lose its footing on the global business ladder if this trend continues. As the importance of foreign language skills grows each year, the UK government will need to introduce more rigorous schemes to generate interest.”(more)