
Student Story: Languages
Elspeth encourages readers to get off the sofa and learn a new language, and explains how her newly developed language skills have come in handy on her travels…
Name: Elspeth Clarke
Institution: Merton Adult Education
Course: Spanish and French
If anyone ever doubted the importance of being able to speak a foreign language, they have only to remember the occasion when President John Kennedy, during a visit to West Berlin, told the assembled crowds ‘I am a doughnut’. Not what he meant to say, of course, but that’s what came out.
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