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Is foreign language learning mandatory?

( bbs.chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2014-09-10 08:12

Magpieme (UK)

I started learning French when I was five. It wasn't mandatory, so when I moved school at age eight, the new school had to assume no one knew French and started from scratch.

If learning any specific language was mandatory from an early age, kids would be fluent by 16. It's not, so we're not.

Is foreign language learning mandatory?

Whizz kid Alex Rawlings is Britain's most multilingual student - after learning to speak ELEVEN different languages. Talented Alex, 22, is fluent in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, German, Greek, Catalan, Afrikaans and Hebrew.

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