I can’t resist learning languages – every new language is a discovery of a new world and way of thinking, and I love studying how they develop and how they work.  We all speak at least one language effortlessly, and there’s no limit to how many we can  learn and use – our brains are amazing!

I learned French, Latin and German at school (it was very common to take two or more languages then!). I got a degree in German and French, and lived in Bonn, Germany, for two years. I lived in Ireland for a few years, but learned much less Irish than I wanted to (definitely worth exploring, so different to English!), and I’ve also learned Italian, Japanese, Dutch, and Swedish, and Russian. At the moment I am learning Chinese.