Last week, a group of Sixth Form linguists went head to head with pupils from other schools in the annual Cheltenham MFL debating competition. In teams of two, they tackled questions such as whether the voting age should be lowered to 16, whether ChatGPT does, in fact, threaten education and whether planes and cars should be banned. The Spanish team went through to the final to debate the motion “Spanish food is the best in the world”, but narrowly lost to their opponents. Special congratulations go to the German champions, Alex and Edmund, who convinced the adjudicators that you can best learn German from memes and TV series. Well done to all involved, not just for their contributions to the debates, but also the impressive spirit and generosity they showed their opponents.
