Language Training
Posted by Michael Signer
Ross Chanin has a smart and fresh Huffington Post up on how we as a nation need to get way, way up to speed on our foreign language training -- particularly in Arabic and Mandarin. This graf says it all:
While I am not out to underestimate the clear cultural value of studying French (the world’s number #11 most widely spoken language) and German (#10), when American high school students still do not have the opportunity to take Advanced Placement (AP) exams in Mandarin (#1) and Arabic (#4) we have a problem.
1. Madarin
2. Hindustani
3. English
4. Arabic
5. Spanish
There's the list. The problem is, Chinese is opposite the way western language is constructed as well as being with different characters, Arabic at least has a similar structure. Mandarin will continue to remain highly specialized until people start teaching it earlier as they do with Spanish.
Posted by: MNPundit | December 11, 2005 at 12:13 PM
So I'm a young guy interested in political development and its links to conflict prevention. I've been in Latin America for a couple years and my Spanish is good, but I think I'd rather specialize in the Middle East and/or North Africa.
What's the best way to get someone to pay me to go somewhere to learn Arabic?
Posted by: Andrew Albertson | December 11, 2005 at 01:34 PM
We should learn foreing languages, that's for sure. But is it possible for our educational system to provide arabic schools in, for example, some american universities? How will people react? Who knows...
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