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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab
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To: Rambi who wrote (574)1/5/1998 5:52:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke  Read Replies (1) of 4711
 
Penni,

I certainly share your concern about the lack of foreign language training in the US. The feeling seems to be that everyone else in the world should learn our language, as indeed many of them have. People who don't study languages are missing out on a lot of the fun in trying to experience other people's cultures, and I don't mean from the window of a tour bus.

There is also some good in language study, even if you don't get much conversational experience. Your Latin, for example gave you the opportunity study a language in a very rigid and grammatical way, as it were to dissect it in a laboratory. I knew very little English grammar until I took Latin. We get by in our native tongues because of our learning as children, but you are not going to get than Latin sentence right without some grammar knowledge.

If you child is in the third year of French and really can't say anything, I think I'd check into it. The students are not getting what they deserve.

Jack
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