Lack of language skills ‘costs billions’

Billions of pounds are lost to the economy each year because of a lack of investment in language learning, a Welsh academic said yesterday.

A report by Professor James Foreman-Peck, of Cardiff Business School, said that investing more in teaching foreign languages to improve people’s ability to speak French, Spanish or German would save businesses £9bn a year.

That is the economic equivalent of a tax reduction on exports of at least 3%.

Language skills are shown to be closely related to the export ability of firms and national economies. And Prof Foreman-Peck said under-investment in languages is leaving the UK and its businesses at a significant disadvantage.

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