I believe deeply that a multiplicity of languages is one of God’s great gifts to the human race. You can hear me waxing lyrical on this subject on MP3 here (about thirty mins). However, even I think that you can have too much of a good thing and I feel very sorry for the teachers at this school in London.
One primary school – Newbury Park in east London – teaches children who speak more than 40 languages, including Tamil, Swahili, Bengali, Cantonese, Spanish, Japanese and Russian.
That has got to make life very difficult for the teachers! Read more in the Daily Telegraph.
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