This was the question asked at the Science and Technology group talk last week.

Members of the group were treated to a fascinating talk by Jane Willis who has taught languages for many years and runs workshops for language teachers. 

Many adults feel they ‘can’t do’ foreign languages and Jane explored some of the reasons why this is the case, why language teaching in schools has often failed to help many communicate and how we could still succeed in learning a foreign language – and shouldn’t give up ‘