Charlotte Higgins
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451 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Sep
Charlotte Higgins’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In other words, I sort of I guess like to think I can do languages because I studied ancient languages at university.
But the reality, Helen, was unbelievably humbling.
And I think also, you know, I'm in my fifties.
By this point
Um I apologise to my bosses if this seems like the wrong thing to say and when I say I feel like I'm I can broadly do my job but going back and learning a language from scratch
It it t it sort of turns him into a child again.
Um, I mean you know this, Helen, because well maybe you don't anymore because you are a wonderful linguist.
Your German is fantastic.
I can speak German, that's all.
I'm not a wonderful linguist, but You studied German at university, you know what it's like to study a semi difficult language.
Yeah.
Um but maybe you're less familiar with learning something when you're um
In m your middle years.
Yeah,
I sometimes feel like I imagine that a two year old might feel you know, when little children when their understanding is clearly outstripping
their linguistic capability and they get very frustrated.
That's what I feel like.
like a kind of weird charm when you
You know, you tentatively go into the cafe or the shop and
you pull out from deep inside yourself this complicated jigsaw with its ridiculously complex grammar and ask for whatever it is that you need to ask for.
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