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Originally posted by Rudey
You're right. It doesn't declare English as its official language. However, English has been deeply rooted in the country from the beginning and is the largest of the languages. Governments, municipalities, and schools spend millions every year to educate students in English including foreign students that take ESL.
And DeltAlum, I don't know what the hell National Foreign Language Week is. The first thing we should do is make sure we don't promote stupid holidays. I have a feeling my tax dollars are somehow being spent on promoting this retarded holiday. You learn language in a class and through interactions abroad - not in a cryptic weeklong celebration. On top of that I don't see how saying the pledge of allegiance in Russian promotes learning foreign languages.
-Rudey
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Rudey,
Chances are your taxes dollars didn't go to funding this, but teacher dollars did...what the purpose is of NFLW is to promote the learning of foreign languages to American students as well as stressing the necessity for students to learn a foreign language to compete in the global market. It's not an official holiday. "In the United States, National Foreign Language Week is celebrated in the first weeks of March annually, with a theme selected by Alpha Mu Gamma, the national collegiate foreign language honor society. " It's actually something that has been around since 1957.
Read on if you are inclined:
http://citywww.lacc.cc.ca.us/activit...r/amg/nflw.htm
The American Association for Teachers of French also sponsors through their members a "National French Week", so we can promote the study of the French language, but again, it's not a federal thing.