I recently came back to the UK from my wife’s homeland of Russia - a land that was once a place of strange sounds and foreign symbols to me. This time I found myself understanding a little more Russian than I did the last time I was there. Gradually, my relationship with the language has changed, just as it has with my own mother tongue. Language is amazing, and if you’re an adult you’ll have been using it for many years and probably barely given it a second thought, but it’s