Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think it is bizarre that Italian is offered at the middle school level unless of course someone else (like the embassy) pays for it. Italian is spoken in only one country in the world right? Maybe there’s some Italian in Ethiopia. And from my time in Italy, the Italians I encountered spoke at least a little English. So
what’s the point??
Omg. Americans are so dumb. It's the third most common language in the European Union, and is a required language in many Latin American countries...because....Italians...traveled...and emigrated. It's an official language in several countries and a widely-spoken one in many more. It's one of the most widely studied languages in the world...I am sure had a drunken honeymoon in Venice and fancy yourself an authority. It's also mutually intelligible with Spanish, and given the number of ESL students in DC who speak Spanish as a mother tongue, probably more easily acquired.
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