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Re: beginner

From:Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
Date:Monday, January 10, 2005, 16:10
--- joao eugenio <joaoeugenio2003@...> wrote:
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> Here in Brazil we > have > english classes in our schools (recently, spanish > too). Do you have something familiar in the schools > of > your country?
When I went to school in California, USA in the 1950's and 1960's I had the choice of Spanish, French, German and Latin. I took Latin and German both. for 2 years. Today, my grand daughter here in Oregon, USA had her choice of French, Spanish or Japanese. She is now 15 and VERY fluent in Japanese. She spends her spare time and her summer vacation studying from college level Japanese textbooks, and she watches movies in Japanese, and reads piles and piles of Japanese books. Next summer she will spend a few weeks in Japan as part of a language program. Clearly the opportunities are available, but it still seems very few Amercians bother to learn another language. --gary

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