Italian? Sorry, Mate - It's All Greek to Me ; Chris Upton

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We have always found it more difficult at Newman to persuade English students to spend a term abroad than to attract the Europeans (or the Japanese, for that matter) in the opposite direction. It's the language thing, of course. Any German, Polish or Dutch student will be incomparably more confident in the English tongue, than an English student nervously stepping off at the deep end in Milan or Frankfurt.

I can hardly take the moral high ground on this, since my own halting efforts in any other language apart from Latin are hardly a thing to write home about.

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Italian? Sorry, Mate - It's All Greek to Me ; Chris Upton

I was 17 years old before I had the opportunity or the confidence to try speaking to a foreign person in their native language. And that...

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