I do think it’s nice to know a foreign language. I also think it’s important to teach it young. Young children seem to pick up languages faster than older children and adults. My goddaughter grew up watching Diego and being around Latin American soccer players and knows way more Spanish than I do. I took three years of German in high school and only remember the things that one would yell in a traffic. I took two semesters of French in college and studied French for a trip to Paris, but find that I can only read and write (at a very low level). I can’t speak or comprehend spoken French at all. I blame this on learning it from a computer program and books.
One problem I see is the choice of languages offered. I went to a tiny H.S. that offered only Spanish and German. The neighboring schools only offered Spanish. While I think Spanish is a useful language (I just didn’t like the teacher), it would have been nice to have other choices. And for that matter, which version of Spanish is being offered? Latin American? European? I understand that the school I went to is now offering Japanese as a distance learning option, which, for me, would cause the same problem I have with understanding the spoken form of the language.
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I do think it’s nice to know a foreign language. I also think it’s important to teach it young. Young children seem to pick up languages faster than older children and adults. My goddaughter grew up watching Diego and being around Latin American soccer players and knows way more Spanish than I do. I took three years of German in high school and only remember the things that one would yell in a traffic. I took two semesters of French in college and studied French for a trip to Paris, but find that I can only read and write (at a very low level). I can’t speak or comprehend spoken French at all. I blame this on learning it from a computer program and books.
One problem I see is the choice of languages offered. I went to a tiny H.S. that offered only Spanish and German. The neighboring schools only offered Spanish. While I think Spanish is a useful language (I just didn’t like the teacher), it would have been nice to have other choices. And for that matter, which version of Spanish is being offered? Latin American? European? I understand that the school I went to is now offering Japanese as a distance learning option, which, for me, would cause the same problem I have with understanding the spoken form of the language.
Read more: http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/do-you-think-learning-a-foreign-language-is-important/#ixzz3NqwdmrX8
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