The classroom discussion started with the question: Why do students need to learn Spanish?
Because learning another language is good for you. Be glad it isn't Greek. Spanish at least uses more or less the same alphabet.
My 5-year-old is learning Greek. (The one from outer space ...)
I’m planning to start the rest of the children learning Spanish as soon as I can get my mother to buy us the computer program. It’s a useful language (which I more-or-less speak), irrespective of immigration issues.
To get an A, of course, and to get into college. You need to pass two years of a foreign language, and Spanish is easy compared to the other choices.
I would’ve prefered to learn Greek in high school. It would make for great conversation with Muslim students.
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We’re not interested in learning the language of those coming to do:
“the jobs Americans won’t do”.
We have higher aspirations.
Ours is learning Mandarin and Latin. Latin is great for word roots - ENGLISH - that is and known to be helpful for SAT scores. Mandarin, hey China is a powerhouse. Laready have four years of oral and written completed. She's been over to Asia and it has been very useful and she's under age 10. NO SPANISH speaking country has EVER amounted to anything impressive and it’s not changing anytime soon.
There's a certain irony here. "alphabet" = "alpha-beta", like "ABCs".
Acme, anathema, analysis, antithesis, asbestos, automaton, aphasia, bathos, genesis, diagnosis, dogma, drama, zone, ethos, echo, idea, cinema, climax, cosmos, crisis, colon, miasma, nectar, nemesis, orchestra, pathos, stigma, hubris, hypothesis, chaos, character, psyche ...
All transliterated from Greek.