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Teaching Scots to speak the language of their neighbours

Punjabi, Urdu, Cantonese ... communities don�t sound like they used to, and some think this should be a learning opportunity. By Gordon Cairns

Gordon Cairns

A leading Scottish academic has called for community languages to be taught more widely at higher education level, at a time when the number of students reading languages at university continues to fall.