What makes a professional language training relationship last for five years? In October over five years ago, I had a phone call with a Barcelona based IVD company. What began as an opportunity to help a highly specialised team make their daily use of English more manageable has developed into a long-term process of shared […]
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I started learning English in high school. German would have been the logical choice. The town where I grew up had an influx of Austrian tourists every day, so German was the obvious practical language. But I chose English. At the time, I had very little idea what learning English would involve. My main contact
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Does learning a second language weaken your first? Not in my experience. One of the most interesting benefits of learning and teaching foreign languages has been discovering how often the process makes people more conscious of their own language. Something that has been completely familiar can suddenly become visible when another language provides a point
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