The SuperLinguists
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- Episode
- Episode 3
- Broadcast Info
- 2019 (26 mins)
- Description
- What is it like to live in a place where you have to speak several languages to get by? Simon Calder travels to India, where a top university only teaches in English, the one language that the students from all over the country have in common. And he meets people who use four different languages with their friends and family, depending on whom they are talking to. In Luxembourg, it is not so much family, but other situations that require four languages, such as going shopping, watching TV, or school lessons. Simon hears that in secondary school, maths is taught in French, history in German, casual chat in Luxembourgish, and English is compulsory too, so that no one leaves school without being multilingual.
- Genre
- Languages
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The Open University, "The SuperLinguists". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/233840 (Accessed 10 Jan 2025)