When we are young our parents teach us that lying is wrong and that we should always tell the truth, no matter what; “The more you lie”, they tell us, “the more people won’t believe you when you actually tell the truth”. But as we grow up, we realise that is not always the case, we realise it is sometimes easier to tell a little lie than face the consequences of telling an inconvenient truth. Let’s think about all the times we lied; were they just little white lies, like telling our friends how nice they looked and how clever they were, when we didn’t think so? Or were they big lies? When we tell a white lie we do it to prevent our friends’ feelings from getting hurt, in other cases we do it because we don’t want to lose face or we do it to get away with something wrong we have done or to get improper privileges. And when our friends lie to us? Would we rather have the bitter truth told to our face or hear a sweeter version of reality and maybe find out what they really think later? Telling lies has its risks: once we’ve told a lie we must keep it up and sometimes this translates into telling other lies; moreover, the truth will sooner or later come out and we may lose our friends’ trust.
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Alex Rawlings, a twenty-year old student from London, has won a completion to find the most multi-lingual student in the UK.
The young polyglot can speak eleven languages: English, German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, French,Italian, Greek, Hebrew, Catalan and Afrikaans. In this video he tells us how he learned so many languages.
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