Re: Connglish
| From: | Sylvia Sotomayor <terjemar@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 19, 2006, 19:41 |
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On 11/19/06, Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> wrote:
> Hallo!
>
> On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 17:00, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>
> > [...] And while I
> > wholeheartedly agree that all children in the US should learn to speak
> > fluent English, I have never figured out why anyone wants them to
> > learn *only* English.
>
> I don't understand that, either. How can there be wrongness in learning
> another than the country's dominant language *in addition to* the latter?
>
> ... brought to you by the Weeping Elf
>
It doesn't make sense to me either. But, I do know that back in the
60s when I was born, my English-as-a-second-language parents did NOT
want me to learn anything but English. They thought that learning
German or Spanish first or alongside would lower my chances of success
later in life AND also make it harder to learn English at all. I guess
the idea that kids can learn any number of languages at a young age
wasn't all that widespread back then. And, I think there are still
people and parents who think that it is best to learn only one
language as a kid, that learning more than one will cause confusion.
-S
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Sylvia Sotomayor
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