Modern Languages
Subject : Modern Foreign Languages (French and German)
Offered from : Year 7 to Year 13
Examination board : Edexcel
Why study Modern Foreign Languages?
To take advantage of the opportunities in today's global jobs market, young people need to wake up to the need for language skills - and the fact that acquiring them can be quite fun. Here are fifteen things studying a foreign language can do for you:
- broadens your experiences; expands your view of the world
- encourages critical reflection on the relation of language and culture, language and thought; fosters an understanding of the interrelation of language and human nature
- develops your intellect; teaches you how to learn
- teaches and encourages respect for other peoples
- contributes to cultural awareness and literacy, such as knowledge of original texts
- builds practical skills (for travel or commerce or as a tool for other disciplines)
- improves the knowledge of your own language through comparison and contrast with the foreign language
- exposes you to modes of thought outside of your native language
- a sense of relevant past, both cultural and linguistic
- balances content and skill (rather than content versus skill)
- expands opportunities for meaningful leisure activity (travel, reading, viewing foreign language films)
- contributes to achievement of national goals, such as economic development or national security
- contributes to the creation of your personality
- enables the transfer of training (such as learning a second foreign language)
- preserves (or fosters) a country’s image as a cultured nation
"A different language is a different vision of life." - Federico Fellini, Italian film director
"No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive." - Mohandas K. Gandhi, Indian nationalist and spiritual leader