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Modern language GCSEs continue to fall in popularity – but new research shows language knowledge will last you a lifetime

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par Monika Schmid, Professor of Linguistics, University of York

You might think that if you stop using a language after studying it at school, you will end up forgetting everything you knew. But this isn’t true. Language knowledge will stay in your brain for decades.

In 2022, around 25,000 A-levels and around 315,000 GCSEs were taken in a modern foreign language. This means that language GCSEs taken have fallen by more than 40%, and A-levels by around 25%, over the

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