• Question: What languages can you speak?

    Asked by 874putk39 to Jake, James, Pete, Senga, Simonne on 7 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: James Cole

      James Cole answered on 7 Nov 2017:

      I speak mostly English, but I have a smattering of Swahili, Shona, Greek, Italian and French

    • Photo: Senga Robertson

      Senga Robertson answered on 7 Nov 2017:

      hi 874putk39

      great question. Speaking different languages can be very helpful in science (and other careers) because you sometimes need to visit different countries as part of your work.

      When I was at school we were only taught one language and it didn’t start until high school so things are much better now. I can speak German (which I learned at school) and enough Italian to get by, which is very handy because I am the only Scottish person in my lab group, everyone else is Italian! ha ha

      Senga 🙂

    • Photo: Jake Langham

      Jake Langham answered on 8 Nov 2017:

      Just English, but I’ve been trying to learn a bit of French and Spanish recently because I often have to go to other countries to work with different scientists.

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      I know a lot of different computer programming languages as well, do they count, haha?

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