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Article #476Re: Americans Aren't Rewarded For Learning Foriegn Languages Like Others
From: Mark Evans
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 00:00
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John Cooley (jcooley@world.std.com) wrote: : Anil <anilv@bedford.progress.com> wrote: : >I like learning languages and already speak 5. I'm currently learning French : >on my quest for more. Most of them are Women. Oh! Don't jump-in folks! : >They all seemed to very dedicated in learning. When the class began there were : >13/14 students; by the end of the semester there were only 6 and 2 are guys. : >I wondered why and now I know. ;) : : Anil, I love languages, too. As a result, I fear your reasoning here might be : a bit flawed. For 98% of all Americans there is absolutely no advantage : whatsoever to learn anything other than English. That is, virtually everywhere Why do so few actually manage to learn then... Also is this on topic at all for ANY of the groups you are posting to?
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fbd31,b26fd4a014c83160 X-Google-Attributes: gidfbd31,public X-Google-Thread: fdc4a,b26fd4a014c83160 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdc4a,public X-Google-Thread: 110235,b26fd4a014c83160 X-Google-Attributes: gid110235,public X-Google-Thread: 1082f5,b26fd4a014c83160 X-Google-Attributes: gid1082f5,public X-Google-Thread: 10a1d2,b26fd4a014c83160 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a1d2,public From: mark@leasion.demon.co.uk (Mark Evans) Subject: Re: Americans Aren't Rewarded For Learning Foriegn Languages Like Others Date: 1996/04/20 Message-ID: <4lbn2h$ad@leasion.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 150554474 x-nntp-posting-host: leasion.demon.co.uk references: <Dq43Co.6Co@world.std.com> followup-to: ne.singles,soc.women,soc.men,ba.singles,soc.couples organization: Electronic Services newsgroups: ne.singles,soc.women,soc.men,ba.singles,soc.couples