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Joining the Nordics linguistically

04/05/2019 thomas 0 Comments

Foreign language teaching in Scottish schools tends to focus on French, Spanish, German, Italian and Mandarin (if we ignore those

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I spent Thursday afternoon in Copenhagen where the Danish Language Council was launching a report about language technologies and how

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I must admit I was a bit sceptical before Nicola Sturgeon’s most recent announcement whether she’d say anything concrete. And

05/03/201905/03/2019 thomas 19 Comments

Regular readers of this blog will already be aware that I think the SNP has been far too passive with

28/01/2019 thomas 1 Comment

I was in my thirties when I learned to drive. I failed the driving test twice. The first time I

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When I moved to Scotland almost 17 years ago, I soon discovered a huge cultural difference compared to Denmark and

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Fintan O’Toole has written a great book about Brexit. Except that it’s really a collective psychoanalysis of the English, and