Ian
Job title
Landscape Gardener
Industry sector
Land-based and Environmental
Background
I am from Hereford in the UK and speak fluent Hebrew.
How do you use your languages?
I am a landscape gardener on a kibbutz in Israel, so I use my languages every day at work and in the community.
What differences have language skills made to your life?
‘I was pruning an olive tree the other day and I was looking up through the branches at the sun and it hit me then that here I was, living in the Mediterranean. It really is like a dream come true.
Source: The Guardian Weekend, 27/1/07