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Gained in translation - jobs and love for foreign tongues in India

Dehradun offers a snapshot of how language learning is picking up among young Indians

Doon University
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The Department of French at Doon University

Anjuli Bhargava New Delhi
A year in Goa left a teenaged Lupita Navarro with a longing to return to India. Her dream came true in 2016. The Mexican had been heading a school for 15 years in Guadalajara. But when she learned that the privately-run Heritage Institute of Languages (HIL) in Dehradun was looking for a Spanish teacher, she took the plunge.

She has been teaching Spanish at HIL, a small privately run and managed language school. And has also been a consultant at two local universities — Dehradun Institute of Technology (DIT) and Graphic Era. At HIL, functioning for over 10 years in