Learning a foreign language is more than just a boost to your CV or handy for travelling. It will make you smarter, more decisive and even better at English, says Anne Merritt. Article from Daily Telegraph
While a language's absorption of foreign words is often seen as a positive mark of a society's cosmopolitanism, the reaction in China has been anything but positive - at least according to state media.
While a language's absorption of foreign words is often seen as a positive mark of a society's cosmopolitanism, the reaction in China has been anything but positive - at least according to state media.
All languages are enriched by borrowing foreign words. But some believe that, with the international spread of English, the process has gone too far. Can the Germans, the French and others halt the Anglo-Saxon tide?
Response to a Times editorial by Lawrence Summers, the former president of Harvard, in which he suggested that the study of foreign languages at the university level was not necessarily crucial going forward