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*The headline says: Can you read this headline? If not, here is the reason… This week thousands of British schoolchildren will head off on foreign holidays – but, sadly, many won't be able to speak a word to the locals. Fewer and fewer pupils are studying foreign languages, and language teaching in our schools is in a dire state.
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