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Originally posted by PM_Mama00
I don't even understand why we have to take foreign languages to get into most universities. In Michigan, high school students are now required to take 3 years of a foreign language. (When I was in, it was 2 years) I took 3 years of Spanish in high school, and 2 semester of it in college.... I barely remember anything.
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I remember a good deal of French, but I'm a teacher and I've been to France twice, so I've been able to use it with 8th grade French students as well as with French citizens.
I will say that there were parts of English grammar that I didn't really get until we learned the same things in French. Infinitives, conjugation of verbs, tenses, articles, direct and indirect objects-- none of them made as much sense in English class until I had to learn about it in French. And then it suddenly made sense.
There's a lot of cultural awareness that goes on in foreign language classes, too. I think it makes many students more open to the fact that other people and other countries are *not* just like the US.
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