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Article #2405Re: Americans and Foreign Languages
From: mark edwards
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1986 14:45
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1986 14:45
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In article <877@zeus.UUCP> dant@tekla.tek.com (Dan Tilque) writes: > >I read in the paper the other day that enrollment in Japanese >classes at Oregon universities is up significantly in recent years. >It seems that it is mostly business majors who are taking the >classes. > I believe its up here at Madison also. At least in the first 2 years. But still it seems most quit after the first year , more after the second year. Those who make through to the fourth year, are few in number. Japanese maybe atypical, but two years of Japanese might be close only ONE year of German or French. Its not enough, and is only barely useful.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!edwards From: edwards@uwmacc.UUCP (mark edwards) Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Re: Americans and Foreign Languages Message-ID: <523@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Nov-86 09:45:09 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.523 Posted: Tue Nov 18 09:45:09 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 18-Nov-86 21:44:59 EST References: <501@uwmacc.UUCP> <133@akgud.UUCP> <877@zeus.UUCP> Reply-To: edwards@uwmacc.UUCP (mark edwards) Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 16 Keywords: Completion