Expats are often shaky in their mother tongue. But fear not: the fight in the brain known as language attrition can be stopped
• Monika Schmid is a professor in linguisticsWhen a former PhD candidate recently asked me to write a reference for her,I found myself facing an unexpected dilemma. She is a wonderful person and a brilliant scientist whom any employer should consider themselves lucky to recruit, and I’m delighted to supply a reference saying just that.
The problem lies in the fact that the job is a lectureship for teaching German. Im German myself, and as is she,and so I felt I should write the letter in German.
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Source: guardian.co.uk