No, I- I absolutely refused to speak German. And if she [her mother] spoke a word of German on a street – I mean, you know, in the Lake District it was not necessarily heavily populated all the time – I would just scream at her and said, “Speak English!” And then I had one of my teachers and he said to me, “Look. German is your mother tongue and you’ve just got to speak German.” And he somehow forced me again to confront German.
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