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Everyone will at some time or another, learn a foreign language whether it is forced upon them or be it of their own choosing.

Back at school most of us were made to learn at least one foreign language which was usually French or German. If you were clever enough to be in the “top stream” you even got to learn Latin – a useful language indeed if you ever needed an audience with the Pope!!

Schools and teaching methods are very strict – they have to be - and consequently learning a language at school is loved by those with a taste for foreign countries; hated by those who can barely speak English; and tolerated by the rest - and so eventually ends up being spoken by no-one!!

In this day and age, it is far easier and much more enjoyable to learn a foreign language. Many will have been put off for life trying to learn a foreign language because of their unforgettable bad experiences at school, but there are many options available nowadays to make learning more pleasurable.

Some languages are easier to learn than others. Thai, for instance has no plurals, no ’articles’ i.e. ‘a’, ‘an’ or ‘the’ and is a tonal language - where one word has several different meanings depending upon how you pronounce it!! If you point at something and pronounce the right word in the wrong way, you won’t be understood even though it is obvious to you!!