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presents a range of approaches in which language learners’ “stories” were analysed, each using auto- biographies or “language learning histories” in different ways—Benson and Nunan themselves use the term (auto)biography. The edited collec- tion emphasises the use of first-person accounts to capture something of the diversity of subjec- tive experience in language learning. That all but one of the studies in Benson and Nunan’s edited collection deal with cases of learning English as a foreign or second language (L2) is indicative of the enormously fertile research in this domain. Yet, given the special case of English in the world, it is also interesting to investigate the learning of other languages that do not enjoy the same global prestige, publicity, and associations with modernity and progress. The present study con- tributes to that branching of the range of research by focusing on learners of French and German as an L2.