When I was a teenager, my mum said: ‘Language is a key: If you can speak in one language, you can have just one key; if you can speak more than one language, you have several keys to open the good ways in your life’.
Shir Mohammed, learner of ESOL
Part of this interview features in The Bell Foundation's interactive story Learning English: The Difference it Made for Me. This is a longer version of the conversation that we had with Shir Mohammad about ESOL.
When I was a teenager, my mum said: ‘Language is a key: If you can speak in one language, you can have just one key; if you can speak more than one language, you have several keys to open the good ways in your life’.
Shir Mohammed, learner of ESOL