Some of our Year 8s attended an MFL careers day at Newcastle University last week.  They got the chance to try their hand at Italian and interview a selection of people whose jobs revolve around languages, including Rich.

Rich wasn’t allowed to give us his surname and we’re not sure that was his real name!  He works for GCHQ which is a British intelligence and security agency that monitors communications between ‘people of interest’.

Rich passes on vital information to MI5 and MI6 so we actually met a real life spy. He studied French at school but decided to step out on a limb and learn a brand new language for his degree – Korean!  Having had no experience or knowledge of the language before starting university, he is now fluent and uses it every day.

It is amazing to think where your current or future languages might just take you.