‘It enriches your mind in every way’: the fight to keep the UK learning German

Amber Tallon, a Blue Badge tour guide, says learning to speak German fluently has led to her ‘dream job’ Photograph: Amber Tallon

When Londoner Amber Tallon started learning German at the age of 12, she “took to it like a duck to water”, she says.

An A-level in the language and modules in German at the University of Oxford, where she studied history, have helped her, now 30, to her “dream job”, working as a Blue Badge Guide in London, where some of the large range of tours she offers are to German students.