Communication
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When the word ‘the’ brought new meaning and a re-evaluation of my mother tongue, and myself Iffat Mirza Rashid, Bentley “I like the idea of knowing it, but I don’t think I want to sit in a class and learn it” is something I said to my Spanish teacher as a 16-year-old as he tried
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Danila Jonnud, Hampshire When I found out about World Hello Day, funnily enough, the first thing that came to mind was a scene from the CBBC show Horrible Histories which I loved watching as a child. The sketch I remembered featured a fictionalised re-enactment of the first telephone call, where the recipient was so surprised
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Maleeha Mansur, Hayes I remember as a child being curious about the concept of shyness and stage fright, a fascination rooted from alienation with the concept. Why were children and adults frightened of speaking in public? I failed to comprehend the challenge and what I certainly lacked was sympathy – until I was faced with
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