Lost in translation: why modern foreign languages in schools needs an overhaul

<P>A question any headteacher should be able to answer is this: if you had a completely free choice, what would your school curriculum look like? I've explored this with different people and usually they have trouble fitting in all their ideas within the confines of a timetable. However, even with a completely free hand, I find that all too often language learning is regarded as a problem area. There are pockets of excellence but we're not exactly taking the world by storm as a

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