What we lose when everyone speaks English
Technology has made foreign languages easy, but robs us of the depth of understanding.
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Marie Le Conte
Marie Le Conte is the author, most recently, of Escape: How a Generation Shaped, Destroyed and Survived the Internet. She was previously the Evening Standard's political diarist, and has written for, among others, the Guardian, Sunday Times, Prospect magazine and Stylist.
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