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Transtlate IT'S not just pupils who are benefiting from a Halifax school's language college status.
For the past five years, students from eight to 80 have been learning French, Spanish, German, Italian, and even Mandarin Chinese at after-school classes at Crossley Heath School.
As well as learning for fun, there is the chance to take a GCSE or learn Chinese for business use.
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Successes from the past couple of years include a grade B GCSE in Spanish by a 10-year-old and GCSE passes in Chinese by three Crossley Heath students.
A recent survey found that half of adults in the UK have forgotten the languages they learned at school.
And since the requirement to study at least one language at school after the age of 14 was scrapped in 2004, GCSE entries have been falling.
French was down 6.8 per cent this year, with German down 5.4 percent.
However, Spanish has been growing in popularity, up 4.9 per cent.
And other languages, including Chinese and Arabic, are also on the up.
Crossley Heath provides courses at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels.
Whole families have enrolled for courses and a substantial number of retired people are honing language skills they can use while travelling abroad.
A new Chinese language assistant, Maggie Wang Bolin, has recently arrived from China.
Pupils at the school learn three modern European languages up to the age of 14 and can study other languages, such as Chinese, both out of school and at lunchtime.
The school has links with educational establishments in other countries, including China, Spain, Germany and France.
Educational trips are organised for pupils and the school has an outreach programme taking modern foreign languages into primary schools.
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