This thinkpiece explores the critical importance of incentivising the uptake of foreign language skills in the UK, both in schools and at university, as well as in the working world. Highlighting the multiple positives and advantages to be gained in the learning of another language, it puts forward thoughts on the establishment of lifelong language pathways. They would help to play a critical role in developing a society which embraces multilingualism, takes advantage of the full range of linguistic skills available to it domestically, and deploys them globally to its commercial advantage – becoming in every sense a more Global Britain.

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