The first foreign language course in college

lkf725
Wed, 28 May 2008 18:18:16 +0000

JHS, I beg to differ, but I don’t think that learning to speak and write in a foreign language has higher “moral value” than learning about other people’s customs, beliefs and values…probably the actual language is even less relevant to understanding different cultures. Just mho, of course.

Let me reiterate that I am not against foreign language study. I was decent at French and pretty fluent in German at one time, and both of my kids study with different degrees of interest and success. I just don’t think that it is essential to force all students into it.

Thanks ingerp, that is actually a very helpful response!