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‘It enriches your mind in every way’: the fight to keep the UK learning German

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 17 August 2024

With A-level entries for the language halving in a decade, a new initiative is hoping to save it from the academic scrapheap

When Londoner Amber Tallon started learning German at the age of 12, she “took to it like a duck to water”, she says.

An A-level in the language and modules in German at the University of Oxford, where she studied history, have helped her, now 30, to her “dream job”, working as a Blue Badge Guide in London, where some of the large range of tours she offers are in the German language.

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‘It enriches your mind in every way’: the fight to keep the UK learning German

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 17 August 2024

With A-level entries for the language halving in a decade, a new initiative is hoping to save it from the academic scrapheap

When Londoner Amber Tallon started learning German at the age of 12, she “took to it like a duck to water”, she says.

An A-level in the language and modules in German at the University of Oxford, where she studied history, have helped her, now 30, to her “dream job”, working as a Blue Badge Guide in London, where some of the large range of tours she offers are in the German language.

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‘It enriches your mind in every way’: the fight to keep the UK learning German

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 17 August 2024

With A-level entries for the language halving in a decade, a new initiative is hoping to save it from the academic scrapheap

When Londoner Amber Tallon started learning German at the age of 12, she “took to it like a duck to water”, she says.

An A-level in the language and modules in German at the University of Oxford, where she studied history, have helped her, now 30, to her “dream job”, working as a Blue Badge Guide in London, where some of the large range of tours she offers are in the German language.