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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Colleges don't care, but you're an idiot if you take a language that isn't Spanish.[/quote]

My kids who took Russian certainly aren't idiots.  Maybe you're talking about yourself?[/quote]

A lot of good that’s gonna do them since Americans can’t even travel to Russia. [/quote]

The UN, [b]State Dept[/b], and intel agencies have LOTS of job openings for people who know Russian or Mandarin.  As an example, NSA only wants them to be able to listen/read and translate; NSA explicitly does not want their people to go to any high risk country.  NGIC in Charlottesville and NASIC in Ohio also want those people.

Langley HS in FCPS has a full Russian language program as a first foreign language.  Every year there are students who transfer to Langley HS from some other FCPS HS in order to study Russian.  It can be a great move career wise.  Same applies to Mandarin Chinese, which some schools in MCPS offer (e.g., Potomac’s ES in MCPS has a Mandarin Chinese immersion program that people fight and claw to get their DC into).  [/quote]

The State Department barely exists anymore.  Spanish speakers aren’t going anywhere.  [/quote]

UN and the IC still have lots of openings for Russian and Mandarin linguists.  I get that Spanish is useful for many.  However, it is not the only valid choice.  You are just trolling.  Bye.[/quote]

I’m not trolling in the least. I’m just supporting my view that from a practical standpoint it makes the most sense for an American high school student to study Spanish as a second language. I am not saying it is the only choice, I am saying it is far away the most practical choice. And I sometimes think that the students whose parents have their children study languages other than Spanish or doing it for classist reasons or competitive ones.  And that’s sad.[/quote]

:lol:  What's sad is your very narrow, very myopic view of why someone should learn a foreign language.  You clearly have zero imagination.  The PPP listed many reasons difficult languages such as Russian and Mandarin are in demand.  But that's ok.  Your kids will be able to understand Dora the Explorer nicely.[/quote]

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