this is interesting

#2
#2
TIME TO PUT ON YOUR TIN FOIL CAP!

Kids in America should be required to learn more than one language, but the language shouldn't be singled out.
 
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#3
yes they should be made to learn another language but I'll disagree on the forced part. We were required to take Latin in 7-8th grade (actually the first class to do it) and it helped immensely once I got into a foreign language in HS. I'm just not sure we even started early enough.
 
#5
#5
english is the universal language of business in the world. while it's helpful to know another language, i'd hardly call it something required.
 
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#6
although I would say the emphasis should be on learning English first
 
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#7
I've already forgotten more Spanish than I learned those 3 years in high school.
 
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#8
kev20 said:
I've already forgotten more Spanish than I learned those 3 years in high school.
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Me, too, but if I'd learned it at an earlier age I think it would have stuck longer. I wish my school had more to offer than Spanish and French. 2500 students and only two languages to learn.

Foreign language classes are also required for most college degrees.
 
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#9
VOLatile said:
Foreign language classes are also required for most Liberal Art degrees.
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FYP.

Most of us engineers and tech majors don't have to fool with foreign languages in college (math is universal right?). That being said, I am trying to learn some Japanese on my own time, since my company deals with many of their companies on a regular basis.
 
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lumberjack4 said:
FYP.

Most of us engineers and tech majors don't have to fool with foreign languages in college (math is universal right?). That being said, I am trying to learn some Japanese on my own time, since my company deals with many of their companies on a regular basis.
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I'm pretty sure that when I was applying to schools they required at least 2 years of foreign language in high school or you'd have to take it in college. I was applying to engineering schools.
 
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VOLatile said:
Me, too, but if I'd learned it at an earlier age I think it would have stuck longer. I wish my school had more to offer than Spanish and French. 2500 students and only two languages to learn.

Foreign language classes are also required for most college degrees.
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possibly, but to what benefit?
 
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#12
If the DoEd. wants children to learn a language of the future they should all be taking Chinese not Arabic.

Another reason to look at cutting the DoEd.
 
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#13
volinbham said:
If the DoEd. wants children to learn a language of the future they should all be taking Chinese not Arabic.

Another reason to look at cutting the DoEd.
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and all those people learning japanese in the 80s really benefited. by far the most valuable language in the US is spanish.
 
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