How Romanian became Britain’s second most spoken foreign language

Tamara Ceaikovski

The Romanian community in the UK is now a million strong, yet while pupils can sit GCSEs in everything from Urdu to Portuguese and Biblical Hebrew, this vast cohort remains overlooked, with no formal exams able to be taken in Romanian. It’s got to change, argues Tessa Dunlop I t used to be a secret code that I shared with my half-Romanian daughter. We could talk freely on the tube and people had no idea what we were saying. Not anymore. Romanian is now the second most-spoken foreign language in

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