Reply to Which "world language" would you steer your child toward?

Forum Index » Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)

Reply to "Which "world language" would you steer your child toward?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I speak all 4 languages you mention. Chinese won't help in getting a job at a big company in China, since those all go to ABCs (American Born Chinese) who grew up speaking it at home in the US. In terms of engineering, the language of engineering is English. The reason is that all programming languages use English terms, and all the resources are in English.

They speak more English in Japan compared to China. We sell in Japan and all our customers (who are college-educated professionals) communicate with us in English without an issue.

As for Spanish, the number of _native_ Spanish speakers in the US is expected to go down, while the number of people who can speak Spanish will go up. How is that possible? What's happening is the children of Spanish-speaking immigrants are using English, meanwhile non-Latino native English speakers are learning Spanish for business reasons. Yes, the majority of gains in Spanish speakers in the US will be coming from non-Latino, native English speakers.

French really has little benefit except in the humanities because a lot of classic literature is from French authors.

If I had to pick, I'd go with Spanish just because it's the most practical in the US. Our DD is trilingual (English, DW's language, Spanish) and we intentionally chose a Spanish-speaking nanny so she'd learn Spanish.[/quote]

How did you come to learn so many languages?  If you learned any in school/college, how long did it take you to become conversant/reasonably fluent?[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics