Pardon the clichéd song choice for a Creative Conversation about languages but check out this music video with Edith Piaf.

Whilst listening to this, perhaps we should be asking ourselves whether we should be having regrets about our relationship with languages, whether that is at a personal or national level.

Thomas Bak, our first catalyst in this conversation, will certainly challenge you on that. He is a researcher at the University of Edinburgh whose work centres on the impact of bilingualism on cognitive functions, cross-linguistic studies of aphasia and the relationship between language, cognition and culture in neurodegenerative disease. He also works on the design and adaptation of cognitive and motor assessments to different languages and cultures.

We are delighted to have Louise Glen from Education Scotland, who has been a huge influence on national languages developments as well as being a brilliant teacher. She will give a compelling overview on where we are with languages teaching in Scotland.

We are also going to hear from two outstanding practitioners who will give us the detail on how all of this can work in the classroom.

This is a Creative Conversation for anyone interested in the brain and its development, who wants to think about what a curriculum in our schools should include and how best we fully educate young people - it is not just 1+2 you know!