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French is No Longer Enough

Seeded on Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:46 AM EDT
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education, students, language, english, teaching, french, urdu, multilingualism, teacher-training, learning-languages, community-language, language-teachers
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Britain is multilingual yet there are few teachers of community languages and even fewer training courses. Spanish, French and Latin are considered to be prestigious qualifications but community languages are often dismissed as irrelevant or second rate...

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'If Urdu is accepted, then I'm accepted, I'm part of this system and this culture.'

English has become the accepted foreign language to learn in so many other countries...is this the beginning of a change of perception towards community languages in English-speaking countries?

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Reply#1 - Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:51 AM EDT
djd

Peut-ĂȘtre, mais que diriez-vous du klingon?

    #1.1 - Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:09 AM EDT
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