I was born in Pakistan to an Irish father and a half Servian mother. When we returned to live to London, my brother and I have a succession of aupairs, particulary french speakers who taught us much of their own languages.
When I was five, my father was posted to Nigeria and my brother and I were sent to french primary school. So by the time I was seven I was bilingual in French and English.
I was then sent off to boarding school in England where we learnt French and Latin. Latin seemed a real bored at the time but I have always been gratefull that I learnt it because in the future it helped me a great deal with hearing French, Italian and Spanish.
I learnt German for a couple of years from age of twelve but I never get on with it. My inclination was cleary for latin languages!.
At the age of sixteen I took to Italian like a duck to water and had little difficulty in learning from scratch to A-level in two years . I always valued the multilingual approach to life, having spent much of my time living abroad amongst people of many different nacionalities and languages.
To end up teaching in a Spanish school where I have been for eight years seemed a natural progression. To be completely immersed in both languages can only be positive, teaming the languages from inside rather than through another language.
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