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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Exactly. I remember when my DS' Spanish class had 38 students and the teacher told us on back to school night that she would have difficulty managing such a large class. No joke![/quote]

If only! DC on 5th short term sub for Spanish.  So far all non Spanish speakers![/quote]
I have studies 6 languages and the best teachers have been non-native speakers. They understood what makes the language hard since they had once started themselves. The worst ones have been native speakers who barely spoke another language.
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Disagree somewhat.  I studied two languages in depth.  My best Spanish teachers were both individuals that grew up truly bilingual and were also quite educated.  One had been to college in the US, then a graduate program in Mexico, so his grammar in both languages was top notch and he was just a super smart guy (maybe an anthropologist by training -- one of those non-marketable degrees so went into HS teaching as a passion project).  The other language I studied, it really required a combination of non-native speakers with native speakers to get it right.
IME, the Spanish teachers in MCPS are quite bad -- their accents are really quite awful.  They are okay on the grammar and vocab stuff, but not great.  It seems like maybe Spanish and education are easy college degrees, so it attracts a lot of people who aren't really that intellectual, so they don't teach the grammar in the systematic the way that you'd hope a non-native speaker would approach it.  If I had more time, I'd supplement more at home.  I at least try to put on Spanish language TV so they can hear what the words are supposed to sound like.  It's sort of surprising to me that they can't get better teachers for Spanish, given how many people n this country grow up bilingual.[/quote]

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