When should language teaching start in Primary Schools? A recent study (see full story) recommends that lessons become compulsory in England. What is the situation in Germany? How important is it to learn a foreign language?

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Today the Monday Podcast took a trip on the U-Bahn to the end station, “Hohemark”. We intended to talk about about the history of the line and what is left of the turning circle at the end of the line that used to be used in the days of the trams.

Unfortunately, things didn’t go according to plan. First we missed the train, and then it starting raining so hard, that we had to give up and go home again.

I hope you still enjoy this rather shorter podcast.

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Useful Links
The history of the U-Bahn in Wikipedia
Building the U-Bahn – from Stadtregion.org
Further infomation from Nahverkehr-FFM Forum about the Hohemark turning circle
Pictures of old trams and the steam train “Hohemark”, that used to run on the line

This week in the Monday podcast we talk about Hape Kerkeling’s book “Ich bin dann mal weg”, in which he writes about his journey along the Camino de Santiago (aka Way of St.James, Jakobsweg).

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