A British Council study last week placed Italian in the top 10 most useful languages for Britons to learn. The Local spoke to Vilma de Gasperin, a senior language instructor at the University of Oxford, to find out why, despite competition from the Asian economies, Italian is still a useful language to know.

Has the number of students wanting to learn Italian changed in recent years?

In the ten years I have been teaching at Oxford, the number of students studying Italian has stayed more or less the same. It fluctuates between 30 to 40 per year.

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