Enrollment in language degree programs is free falling. We need a conversation about why we must master more than English, says a department head at the University of Copenhagen. She, for her part, has no doubt.
Lisbeth Verstraete-Hansen can without hesitation point to what it was that, more than 40 years ago, sparked her enthusiasm for French and made her fall in love with the language and the culture:
»I had a French teacher, a mature man, who gave us Annie Ernaux texts and opened the world to us. In French, you see and talk about the world differently«, she says.
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