Monday, July 07, 2008

5 Poor Excuses For Not Learning a Foreign Language

Steve Kaufmann at PickTheBrain has a post demolishing "5 Poor Excuses For Not Learning a Foreign Language". There are more than just a few countries where practically everyone knows two or more languages. In the United States, outside the Latino community, it's unusual to know even one foreign language. How many life-enriching (not to mention pocketbook-enriching) opportunities are we passing up because of our irrational aversion to language learning?

1 Comments:

At 23:29, Blogger Silvia said...

Considering those 5 excuses, foreign language might not be a mandatory subject in school?

 

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