Intercultural Communication and Translation News

New research from Foreign Currency Direct has found that as one in four Brits up sticks and buy a home abroad, the interest in foreign languages is growing with one in ten making the effort to learn the local lingo.

Foreign Currency Direct has been running its ‘Bail out Britain’ campaign which has studied the reasons behind the recent increase in people migrating abroad and has discovered that just under a third (30%) of Brits are competent in a different language and a further 37 per cent attempt to keep up their language skills will regular visits abroad.

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