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[quote=Anonymous][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]

But you [i]are[/i] saying it’s the only choice, because people are giving you reasons why studying other languages can make sense and you are refusing to accept any of them. [/quote]

Quite so.[/quote]

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