{"id":6905,"date":"2019-08-15T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/?p=6905"},"modified":"2019-08-16T04:15:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T04:15:26","slug":"spanish-a-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/2019\/08\/15\/spanish-a-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Becomes Most Popular Foreign Language at A Level"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Spanish became the most popular foreign language at A Level with entries overtaking French for the first time,\u00a0according to the Joint Council for Qualifications<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Source: www.jcq.org.uk<\/p><\/div>\n

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For the first time, Spanish entries overtook those for French, making it the most popular foreign language. Spanish entries increased by 4.5% to 8,625 and French decreased by 4.1% to 8,355. German entries remained level.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Entries for French, German and Spanish combined, have levelled off, reversing the decline in recent years against the backdrop of a 2.9% decrease in the size of the 18-year old population.<\/p>\n

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Ignacio Peyro, director of Instituto Cervantes, the official Spanish language and cultural centre said there had been concern in recent years about students taking foreign languages at GCSE and A-level.<\/p>\n

But he added: \u201cFor us, of course it\u2019s very positive that Spanish is growing and I think that it is in a global country like the UK, there\u2019s a growing perception that the Spanish-speaking world is becoming more important in terms of demography, economy, trade, culture and so on.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWho would have thought that 20 or 30 years ago that this was going to happen?\u201d\u00a0Mr Peyro said, pointing out that at that time, other languages such as French were more commonly taught.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpanish was in a very different place at that time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr\u00a0Peyro also said it was \u201cgood to study any foreign language, better than none\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope that all foreign languages will soon be on the rise again in Britain,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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More information: Spanish Becomes Most Popular Foreign Language<\/a>, Press Association<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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