I know you want to visit the world, go to France, Italy, Brazil, and everywhere else But there is a problem. you don't know how to speak the langauge they speak in those counties, and even if you have those tourist guide, you still don't get what you want or need because the habitants of the country don't get what you are saying because of the way you pronounciate are because you just saying thing tht you don't evenknow. in the U.S, we, american neglect to know any languages unless if its english and let me say that we should at least study a foreign language because I've been that person who wouldn't talk because i did not know how to get my ppoints accross You see, all my life I've been raised in Haiti where I"ve learned how to speak French and Creole but i've never spoken english and when i came, it was a different experience and i fell in love with english because it was so diiferent for me and i Strongly recommand you to try some languages now i am learning spanish and trust me it is fun specailly if who are someome who love going on trips
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I suggest you use some punctuation and proper capitalization when writing your blogs. Your entire blog here seems almost entirely one long sentence, which makes it difficult to read.
It might also be beneficial to expand on your experiences, how you felt when you had to learn English, that type of thing.
Feel free to PM your blog to any of the faculty members (those with images like mine near their name) to have them review it for you before you post.
And to the two individuals that rated this blog a 5... you shouldn't rate a blog based on whether you agree or not. You should rate it based on its quality. Would you see this in a newspaper or magazine?
~C
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I agree. The whole thing was technically two sentences.
I like the idea of requiring everyone to learn more than one language. It definitely changes the way you think and helps people learn how to make connections.
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As I read this I was thinking that it is ironic to consider the value of a second language before mastering one's first.
Of course, that was a very catty and judgmental thing for me to think, but I can be that way sometimes.
I very much believe that the earlier a student can learn a second language, the better. And students for whom English is not their first language MUST keep using their first language at home while they learn English.
http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/ediblewoman
The problem with many people, not just Americans, is that learning a language is hard business. For example, I have taken 3 years of Spanish and 1 year of German and French while I was in high school. You ask why I took so many? Well, first of all it's a requirement to take some language in school so I took Spanish. As for German and French, well, I took those when I was a junior in high school and I needed some extra credits since I pretty much had all the required ones. Anyways, my point is the year I took of German and French were extremely easy, but this is only because these classes were the first ones; the classes that taught the BASIC basic stuff, like "Hi my name is..." and nothing difficult. As for Spanish, I'm half hispanic and I chose to take Spanish because I figured it would make my mom happy, so I did. And like German and French, the first two years (I say first two because they split up 'Spanish 1' into two years to teach as much as possible, so I took this course while I was in 7th and 8th grade) were pretty easy. As I continued in Spanish, I started figuring out that I could not retain as much as every other student was. When it came to tests I could spit out the answers and what have you, but as the years progressed, I found it more and more difficult to remember certain words, phrases, and even conjugations.
Learning other languages is not always easy for everyone to do. And if I'm correct, I was told sometime, somewhere, by someone back in the day, that as one gets older it becomes more difficult to learn languages. My dad has been teaching himself Chinese for the past two years, I believe. He's in his upper 40's, so one would think he would not be able to remember Chinese very well. Unlike me, my dad "knows" how to study and the proper ways of learning any subject. He's a very smart man, so learning another language this far in his life is no problem for him.
I would have to agree with many people when they saying knowing another language is important. It's important for many reasons such as living in another country or even working with someone who doesn't speak the native tongue. Unfortunately, it is quite difficult for many people to learn other languages because they just don't want to, speech impediments, learning disabilities, or they find it difficult to retain.
As for you, I find it extraordinarily amazing how you actually found English to be so entertaining and the fact you actually took the time to learn it. Kudos to you my friend.