Before you started to learn spanish you probably looked into the reasons why you should learn. Aside from bettering you in the job world. Other ways spanish could better you are by beginning new friendships, expanding your knowledge about a spanish speaking countries culture, enjoying spanish arts such as music, plays and movies, make traveling more fun and easier whether for business or pleasure, understanding your own language better such as grammar and vocabulary, improving the way your brain functions, you could study abroad, impress a date, change the way you view the world and even improve your personality by having a better understanding open mind about other cultures.…
Spanish is necessary because in Mexican and Puerto rican help you to keep pace with popular culture. Knowing how to speak Spanish will enable you to help…
"History of the Chevrolet Impala 1958-2011 - Chevy Impala Forums." Chevy Impala Forums. Web. 17 Apr. 2012. .…
Spanish speaking kids are able to adapt faster to the curriculum and the culture while English speakers develop better cognitive skills (Latino Voices, April 2014). Furthermore, reports from American Psychiatric Association show that children who are raised bilingual have a better ability to process sounds and therefore develop better concentration skills. They also have reduced levels of anxiety, loneliness and poor self-esteem (Psychiatric News, April 2012). There are several other distinct benefits to the use of bilingual education. Most children enter school with basic language skills already in place – the language may be their native language, such as in Richard Rodriguez’s case, or English. It is entirely up to qualified teachers to use those language skills to help them develop the academic competence they need to succeed in life. Richard might have benefited from bilingual education, have the nuns did not discourage it. It is proven, that children learn more effectively if they learn English through the use of their native language. This method provides solid basis for learning and allows them to keep up with their classmates while acquiring the language they need in order to interact efficiently in society. Bilingual learning preserves children 's sense of pride in the language of their ancestors, allowing them to function in an English dominant society, while…
A student passes two years of Spanish to graduate as it is required. The student’s family is going on vacation to Mexico. The student decides it would be fun to use his knowledge of Spanish. As the student lands in Mexico, he is greeted by, “¡Hola, me llamo es Jacob! ¿Como estuvo tu viaje?” But as the student tries to make out what he says, he pulls out an English to Spanish book instead. Students learn Spanish because it is required to graduate, but they never become fluent at it even in situations that would be useful. Spanish should not be required in schools as some students are never fluent, students that have anxiety over Spanish cannot graduate, and English is the most common language spoken in the United States.…
walked into the first class that I have ever took and confronted chaos. The four students in my Spanish class were engaged in a heated spitball battle. They were all following the lead of Andrew, a tall eleven-year-old African-American boy. Andrew turned to me and said, "Why are we learning Spanish if no one speaks it? This a waste of time."…
Throughout his essay, Rodriguez emphasizes on the fact that a language, other than English, does not appeal to most people in America, therefore is deemed of less importance. He points this out when he mentions the “English Only” laws that are followed in schools and how bilingual students, specifically Spanish-speakers, receive consequences from disobeying the rules. Rodriguez explains, “But with “English Only” laws, school suspensions, and the derailment of bilingual education programs, Spanish is again being devalued and people who speak it discriminated against” (347). Rodriguez fully illustrates the challenges of speaking a language other than English. By stating this in his essay, he clearly points out that if he even wrote it in Spanish then he will easily be discriminated the same way a Spanish-speaker is discriminated when they choose to speak in their native tongue. Since this…
Throughout highschool I plan on taking the classes that will help me the most with my career. I also plan on taking all basic core classes that i need to graduate and some extra maths and sciences. I would like to take a foreign language such as Spanish because it could be useful in not only my everyday life, but my career too because I may encounter people who only speak spanish, and being able to speak spanish would help me communicate with them.…
The students at Saint Lawrence cultivate a very adventurous community where ¾ of all students study abroad. When I was in high school, I thought I would only take a foreign language in high school. This means I would not need to take Spanish in college, however,…
For many people, knowing Spanish is a necessity to get a job that pays well. Many well-paying…
Many schools curriculums required students to take a language. The requirement is so popular that not only does it exist in the college level, but also in the middle school and even elementary school level. It is assumed that it would be useful to learn any other language, if a student begins to learn Spanish in an a elementary school him or her may have fun learning Spanish with the teacher playing games and cool worksheets but the will only get basic understanding of the language. Student who take Spanish class in the elementary are mostly required to take Spanish class in the middle school requirement him or her will probably gain more intermediate understanding of the language they will probably know how to put a whole conversation in…
Thesis: Fluency in a foreign language should be required for all students before graduation from high school.…
As recently reported in the media, an 8-year old boy has been charged with the premeditated double murder of his father and another man. The third-grader may even be charged as an adult for the crime.…
“I hate spanish class!” I said that in first and second grade and I regret saying it. I regret it because I go to Mexico for family and vacation. In my opinion, it’s really hard being there and not knowing spanish. Middle, high and/or grades schools should have foreign language classes.…
1. My last English class was very challenging. We worked mostly on analyzing and evaluating arguments. This included working with multiple articles and really understanding what the author was trying to argue. As a class, we really worked a lot with mapping and charting the texts. These seemed to take the longest to do because you are really digging deep into the text and trying to understand exactly what the author is trying to say. The most important thing that I learned is that “good writing is rewriting”. That was one of Micah’s quotes that he would say to us the entire semester, but it is true. You cannot expect to slide by with just one draft of your writing. We would spend weeks on just one assignment, making lots of revisions and constantly fixing things. This really helped me as the semester progressed.…