
Francesca Pini
Co-founder and CEO of Language Angels, a UK primary foreign language teaching platform, with 27+ years of classroom language teaching experience.
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Sep 28, 2026
The Golden Window - Why Primary School is the best time to learn a Foreign Language: TTR Special
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Tom RogersHOST
So what was the moment, the light bulb moment, if you want to call it that, that made you think, let's set up Language Angels?

Francesca PiniGUEST
It didn't really happen like that, but there was a moment where we decided to do that.

Francesca PiniGUEST
So there was a secondary school that was language college, and I had to go into the primary schools to train their teachers.

Francesca PiniGUEST
I thought I had all the necessary skills and it was going to be really easy and I could train teachers.
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Darren LesterHOST
Francesca, do you want to talk us through what they meant by the critical period and why that is so important? Because that's kind of central to everything you guys do.