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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (32117)	10/12/2001 4:14:10 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Let me add a few points and see if we can find something to argue about. <g> Maybe not quite an argument but atleast points for discussion. I agree with you that Spanish can be a job skill as well. But English is almost universally a job skill. Spanish is important in some fields or in some places but generally not to the extent that English is. I also agree that being bilingual has benefits, but the most important language concern in the US is IMO that everyone learn to speak, read, and write English. If we can go beyond that and know two, three, or 18 languages then that is just great but English is more crucial. I would love to be fluent at other languages, but I don't have much talent for learning foreign languages and I don't have enough desire or discipline to learn them despite that lack of talent. I know a very tiny bit of a number of languages but only in French or Spanish could I carry on a conversation, and that conversation would be extremely limited and short. Probably one or two sentences. For example in Paris on the Ile de la Cité I asked where Sainte Chapelle was and got a two word answer to which I replied "merci". Unfortunately it was a cloudy day and I didn't get to see bright light streaming through the stained glass windows which I understand can be quite striking under the right circumstances. Tim