37 min
Episode 1: Is it normal to speak more than one language? The Language Revolution
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As the UK faces a languages crisis, with numbers dropping up to 50% in take-up of GCSE Modern Languages since 2003 and a £48bn deficit in the UK economy due to a shortage of linguists, join languages teacher and entrepreneur Cate Hamilton and neuroscientist Thomas Bak as they discuss how humans learn and process languages, and why being multilingual is (and always has been) normal. Part 1/3.
As the UK faces a languages crisis, with numbers dropping up to 50% in take-up of GCSE Modern Languages since 2003 and a £48bn deficit in the UK economy due to a shortage of linguists, join languages teacher and entrepreneur Cate Hamilton and neuroscientist Thomas Bak as they discuss how humans learn and process languages, and why being multilingual is (and always has been) normal. Part 1/3.
37 min