{"id":100260,"date":"2019-07-04T15:31:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T13:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/07\/04\/want-a-truly-mind-expanding-experience-learn-another-language-rhiannon-lucy-cosslett\/"},"modified":"2019-07-04T15:31:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T13:31:22","slug":"want-a-truly-mind-expanding-experience-learn-another-language-rhiannon-lucy-cosslett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=100260","title":{"rendered":"Want a truly mind-expanding experience? Learn another language | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That Brexit has put British pupils off studying languages is tragic \u2013 it\u2019s not just great for your brain, it opens up whole new worldsMore than half the world\u2019s people speak more than one language, and I am one of them: I speak English, Welsh, French and Italian, and wish that I could speak more.Being able to speak more than one language has opened up whole worlds of experience and understanding \u2013 so it is particularly saddening then to see reports that Brexit is putting British pupils off studying modern foreign languages at school. Some parents have even told teachers that it\u2019s useless for their children to learn another language now that the UK is leaving the European Union. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/jul\/04\/language-studying-languages-brexit-pupils-brain\" target=\"_blank\">Want a truly mind-expanding experience? Learn another language | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That Brexit has put British pupils off studying languages is tragic \u2013 it\u2019s not just great for your brain, it opens up whole new worldsMore than half the world\u2019s people speak more than one language, and I am one of them: I speak English, Welsh, French and Italian, and wish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}