The 351 students start studying Kurdish, the native language of most, in third grade.

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The texts were never published and their rarity means that they are key sources for people studying Cornish language, literature and the lives of the authors.

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Like the Rosetta Stone's ubiquitously marketed computer-based product, TOTALe Online works by means of virtual immersion: Regardless of skill level, you listen in on dialogues, repeat sentences and answer questions entirely in the language you're studying.

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We're making sure that anyone studying a degree-level course has a proper grasp of the English language.

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She also highlighted the danger of a downward spiral: fewer people studying languages after 14 would mean fewer future language teachers.

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"Studying language is a gradual thing, " advises Chen Shu, a professor of English at the Beijing Foreign Studies University.

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