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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, some really ignorant posters on here. Learning any foreign language at a young age improves cognitive development. It makes future language learning much easier. Hebrew is a very difficult language to learn at older ages, unlike Spanish and French. And [b]Hebrew is a gateway language to Arabic[/b]. If there were an Arabic charter school in DC then great - but there's not.

And yes, everyone in Israel speaks English so do the vast majority of French, Spanish, etc. [/quote]

You sound like a defensive Sela parent?

In any case why not just learn Arabic which is spoken by far more people and amongst the speakers of Arabic English is spoken by relatively few folks.  And surely fluency in Arabic is far more practical if you are looking for a job.

FWIW I've traveled in Spain, France and Israel and English is far more widely spoken in Israel and far better than it is in Spain or France.  I don't think I encountered a single native Israeli who didn't speak fluent English and don't know what you are talking about when it comes to Spain as English isn't well spoken outside of the tourism trade.[/quote]

And that’s crazy. The level of English spoken in Western Europe is high - especially in France. Plenty of Israelis have poor English - not, of course, in the “tourist trade.” :roll: [/quote]

I was actually shocked by the level of English spoken by many Israelis. Israel wishes to promote Hebrew first and foremost which is fine but isolationist of them. Many do not learn English in school or not well. I didn’t travel there as a tourist so I may have met a different group than others commenting. So, my assumption is that Sela is somewhat tied to this project of Hebrew language revival but at what cost?[/quote]

Is it isolation of Italians to speak Italian? Maltese to speak Maltese? Finns to speak Finnish? Your bias is showing. Hebrew is officially revived. - and has been for 100+ years. I guess the cost is a strong public school option for a diverse cross-section of DC students...sounds like a win-win. [/quote]

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