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Letter: Speaking in code

Published 18 June 2014

From Geoffrey Withington

At the age of 25, I learned to speak Russian; but at the age of 43 I was forced to learn Dutch while at the same time taking a crash refresher course to upgrade my schoolboy French. This was a result of moving to bilingual Belgium for work.

I had no difficulty, and found learning Dutch to be both useful and very interesting. I see no reason why older people shouldn’t while away winter evenings learning a new language.
Bridge, Kent, UK

Issue no. 2974 published 21 June 2014

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