Languages in UK schools: where we are vs where we need to be

<P>Learning a foreign language is difficult, right? Well, yes it is if you start at 11, only do it for three years, get the bare minimum of curriculum time, have your classes so spaced out that you forget what you learned last Wednesday when it comes to the next lesson on Tuesday, and never get to apply your skills, so it's all theory and no practice (let alone pleasure).</P><P>This is pretty much how schoolchildren in the state sector are taught modern foreign languages

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