OT – Bilingual Education

[NotCranky]

[quote=deadzone]
Bigger picture, learing additonal languages here in U.S. is totally worthless if you don’t actually spend significant amount of time overseas actually using the language.[/quote]
Just curious, which foriegn language did you acheive fluency in that doesn’t add increased perspective and other valuable things to your life here? I mean, you must have tested your theory?

[afx114]

[quote=deadzone]Bigger picture, learing additonal languages here in U.S. is totally worthless if you don’t actually spend significant amount of time overseas actually using the language.[/quote]

Unless you work in retail in San Diego. Like it or not, Spanish is pretty much a requirement for a retail job in the southwest, even if it’s not officially stated as so.

[afx114]

[quote=deadzone]Bigger picture, learing additonal languages here in U.S. is totally worthless if you don’t actually spend significant amount of time overseas actually using the language.[/quote]

Unless you work in retail in San Diego. Like it or not, Spanish is pretty much a requirement for a retail job in the southwest, even if it’s not officially stated as so.

[afx114]

[quote=deadzone]Bigger picture, learing additonal languages here in U.S. is totally worthless if you don’t actually spend significant amount of time overseas actually using the language.[/quote]

Unless you work in retail in San Diego. Like it or not, Spanish is pretty much a requirement for a retail job in the southwest, even if it’s not officially stated as so.

[afx114]

[quote=deadzone]Bigger picture, learing additonal languages here in U.S. is totally worthless if you don’t actually spend significant amount of time overseas actually using the language.[/quote]

Unless you work in retail in San Diego. Like it or not, Spanish is pretty much a requirement for a retail job in the southwest, even if it’s not officially stated as so.

[afx114]

[quote=deadzone]Bigger picture, learing additonal languages here in U.S. is totally worthless if you don’t actually spend significant amount of time overseas actually using the language.[/quote]

Unless you work in retail in San Diego. Like it or not, Spanish is pretty much a requirement for a retail job in the southwest, even if it’s not officially stated as so.

[all]

[quote=deadzone]
Bigger picture, learing additonal languages here in U.S. is totally worthless if you don’t actually spend significant amount of time overseas actually using the language.[/quote]

There is some value in being able to consume original literature. Books like Also sprach Zaratustra and Das Kapital or concepts like Dasein do not translate easily.

[Edit] Same for Rammstein lyrics.

[all]

[quote=deadzone]
Bigger picture, learing additonal languages here in U.S. is totally worthless if you don’t actually spend significant amount of time overseas actually using the language.[/quote]

There is some value in being able to consume original literature. Books like Also sprach Zaratustra and Das Kapital or concepts like Dasein do not translate easily.

[Edit] Same for Rammstein lyrics.

[all]

[quote=deadzone]
Bigger picture, learing additonal languages here in U.S. is totally worthless if you don’t actually spend significant amount of time overseas actually using the language.[/quote]

There is some value in being able to consume original literature. Books like Also sprach Zaratustra and Das Kapital or concepts like Dasein do not translate easily.

[Edit] Same for Rammstein lyrics.

[all]

[quote=deadzone]
Bigger picture, learing additonal languages here in U.S. is totally worthless if you don’t actually spend significant amount of time overseas actually using the language.[/quote]

There is some value in being able to consume original literature. Books like Also sprach Zaratustra and Das Kapital or concepts like Dasein do not translate easily.

[Edit] Same for Rammstein lyrics.

[all]

[quote=deadzone]
Bigger picture, learing additonal languages here in U.S. is totally worthless if you don’t actually spend significant amount of time overseas actually using the language.[/quote]

There is some value in being able to consume original literature. Books like Also sprach Zaratustra and Das Kapital or concepts like Dasein do not translate easily.

[Edit] Same for Rammstein lyrics.

[Anonymous]

I speak Spanish, for instance and it is of no practical value here in the US (except for enterntainment purposes cause I love watching telenovelas at night).

Travelling to Mexico or other Spanish speaking countries extremely valuable. Traveling to Europe it provided no value outside of Spain (caveat: helps a little towards Italian/Portugues but not much help for French).

How do you prove your theory that it does add value?

[Anonymous]

I speak Spanish, for instance and it is of no practical value here in the US (except for enterntainment purposes cause I love watching telenovelas at night).

Travelling to Mexico or other Spanish speaking countries extremely valuable. Traveling to Europe it provided no value outside of Spain (caveat: helps a little towards Italian/Portugues but not much help for French).

How do you prove your theory that it does add value?

[Anonymous]

I speak Spanish, for instance and it is of no practical value here in the US (except for enterntainment purposes cause I love watching telenovelas at night).

Travelling to Mexico or other Spanish speaking countries extremely valuable. Traveling to Europe it provided no value outside of Spain (caveat: helps a little towards Italian/Portugues but not much help for French).

How do you prove your theory that it does add value?

[Anonymous]

I speak Spanish, for instance and it is of no practical value here in the US (except for enterntainment purposes cause I love watching telenovelas at night).

Travelling to Mexico or other Spanish speaking countries extremely valuable. Traveling to Europe it provided no value outside of Spain (caveat: helps a little towards Italian/Portugues but not much help for French).

How do you prove your theory that it does add value?

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