Episode 1 Season 2 (English) transcript_0.docx
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… of English. Bob: You can then go a little bit further than you, and you can ask, why do so many people speak English anyhow? Bob: Why have they learned it? Then you have to go back the early, the late 1940s and the 1950s when governments introduced foreign language learning in schools. And in most European countries, fairly quickly, English became the first foreign language. So you end up, by the end of the 60s and the 70s, with a large number of your young population whose first foreign language is [00:13:00] English. Bob: Now when we've looked at what languages do students in this university speak, we find they speak Hundreds of languages actually, then you try and ask, at what level can they At an academic level, they can …