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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love that I know how to speak Spanish. I didn’t choose it in high school because I wanted to be different but I realized it would be useful so I took it in college. It’s not just useful (I’m a stay at home mom in nova and I use it all the time, surprisingly), but it’s also just as culturally sophisticated as French or Latin. For some reason this did not occur to me in high school.

My kids refuse to take Spanish because they had FLES in elementary and they hated it and it ruined Spanish for them. Maybe someday they will come around.

But Spanish really is the best for somebody in the United States (and who doesn’t have family connections to a different language). [/quote]

Okay but as far as job opportunities go, it depends. [b]If you actually want to use your language,[/b] id say mandarin or Arabic, and perhaps Russian. But often Spanish and other languages can look good on a resume because every once in a while it’s just useful to know. [/quote]

So in your world one can’t “use” their language by, you know, speaking to people in their community?  It HAS to be used in the context of a JOB?[/quote]

By that I meant “if you want a career where you are guaranteed to use your language in your job.” I’m the PP who is a stay at home mom and I use my Spanish all the time so no I do not think that using a language needs to be in the context of a job. [/quote]

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