I was shocked and saddened to wake up the other morning to more news of the crisis in the teaching of foreign languages in our schools Over recent years, the number of students opting to take Spanish and German has been steadily declining but now the same trend is being seen for French. Oh no! Not French as well! Just when I thought (perhaps naively) that the language of Molière was still holding its own in a nation which seems to be becoming more insular by the day, the sad