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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
we are in North America they speak English and those two weeks every three
years where we go overseas to a non-English speaking country, we find plenty
of people speaking English there!  (Let's see, because of business I was in
Japan last November, Israel last month and in Sweden two days ago.  I didn't
speak one word of the local lingos and got along quite well!  English *is*
the international Lingua Franca these days.)

Please don't get me wrong: I agree with Goethe that the only way to learn your
own language is to learn another one -- I'm *just* explaining why there was
such a high drop out rate in your French class, Anil.

  - John

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