Foreign Language in High School Does freedom of speech include the choice of what language you learn in school? Many high schools are only offering Spanish as the sole foreign language. Gone are the days when students could choose what language to learn second to English. The schools have taken this choice away from our youth‚ due to the number of Spanish speaking people in this county. It is important for us to as a global society to offer multiple languages in high schools. If students are given
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reminiscent effects‚ learn a foreign language? This topic is quite controversial; everyone has their own opinions and experiences with it. Some despise forcing kids to learn a language that they lack interest in. Some hate that their child already struggled/struggles with English‚ why on Earth would we dump ANOTHER language on them? This is a controversy I hope to address‚ at least by sharing my personal journey with it even though it is difficult to explain how one learns something. Before
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GE CHEN 10/24/11 2nd draft How to Learn a Foreign Language Do you think language is crazy and funny? Would you like to learn a foreign language? If you go to a different place without a local language‚ it is like going to a different planet. That makes it hard to communicate with the locals and have a good time. However‚ learning a foreign language can be challenging‚ and you probably will feel frustrated when you start to study a second language because you are perplexed about how to study
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«Why should students learn foreign languages» Learning a foreign language is not an easy thing. It is a long and slow process that takes a lot of time and efforts. Nowadays it is especially important to know foreign languages. Some people learn languages because they need them for their work‚ others travel abroad‚ for the third studying languages is a hobby. Everyone‚ who knows foreign languages can speak to people from other countries‚ read foreign writers in the original‚ which makes your outlook
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first fundamental function of learning foreign language is that it provides students chances to have a glimpse of the culture of other countries. It is only by having the knowledge of another culture‚ can we learn tolerance and understand ways different from our own. Aside from that‚ we can also understand how different religions shape different cultures. Besides‚ there are so many masterpieces from countries like China and India that are written in the language with words that may don’t even exist
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A foreign language is a language indigenous to another country. It is also a language not spoken in the native country of the person referred to‚ i.e. an English speaker living in Japan can say that Japanese is a foreign language to him or her. These two characterisations do not exhaust the possible definitions‚ however‚ and the label is occasionally applied in ways that are variously misleading or factually inaccurate. Some children learn more than one language from birth or from a very young
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Sessions 11/27/12 High School Foreign Language Each year‚ high schools around the country waste money on unnecessary foreign language programs. Although learning a second language can help get a job‚ or help adapt to a new country that doesn’t speak English‚ if there was a choice‚ most students would not choose to take a foreign language class. Also‚ most students who take foreign classes just to acquire the credits to graduate and usually do not even end up using the language later in life. If
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Topic : All students in high school and college should be required to take at least 2 years of a foreign language High school can be one of the very best times to learn a language. There are few other periods in life when the students will have as many opportunities to freely attend a class under the instruction of an experienced teacher. There are more than 6‚000 languages in the world‚ and while many of these are not commonly taught and aren’t spoken in most
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Should all school pupils be made to learn at least one foreign language? Opinions. 1-it’s difficult to support the theory all children should learn a foreign language when most appear to be so woefully inadequate in their native tongue. http://www.helium.com/debates/124525-should-all-school-pupils-be-made-to-learn-at-least-one-foreign-language 2-Foreign languages are important for the individual pupil. Employers value people who are able to speak more than one language. Learning a language will therefore
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Learning a foreign language isn’t an easy thing. Nowadays it’s especially important to know foreign languages. Some people learn languages because they need them for their work‚ others travel abroad‚ for the third studying foreign languages is a hobby. Everyone‚ who knows foreign languages can speak to people from other countries‚ read foreign authors in the original‚ which makes your outlook wider. I study English. It’s a long and slow process that takes a lot of time and efforts. Over 300 million
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