Why Do we need to take it i mean seriously the majority of students never use it again in their lives I know im never gonna use it ugh any thought?
The world is becoming more and more bilingual. Soon the majority of the US will be Hispanic. If you ever go into business, you're going to deal with foreign languages. It's also good to learn. I wish I took Japanese in high school. And, depending on what language, who you are, and where you use it, it opens up a whole new world of 'playa.'
Learning different languages never hurts anyone. It's a good thing, and you never know, it may come in handy sometime.
I used to know German pretty well because I lived there in Second and Third Grade, but It's been so long I can only KIND of understand what I read.
Loving the last point you made there, Minus. I think that it's a huge bonus for people to know more than one language. I truly believe that this will help later in life, even if all it does is open up a new sphere of work. Myself, I know three languages almost completely, and two others that I have a not-bad level in. That said, perhaps it shouldn't be an obligatory subject.
I'm not really going to need to speak either French or Spanish in my opinion and In fact haven't used either in such a long time (3 years) I've forgotten most of it anyway. I personally hated learning a new language. I don't think it should be mandatory though, some do really struggle with it based on level of learning and although I got decent marks in both I just didn't enjoy it. Last year was the year when it wasn't made mandatory in years 10 upwards in my school and now they are bringing in Chinese in a few years, although I'll be long gone I would have much preferred learning that than French.
I don't know if there's any connection but when I was learning languages at school and it was compulsory I was crap, whereas whenever I've done it outside of that, such as when I took extra-curricular Italian lessons when I was younger, I actually did pretty well and became relatively fluent.
Yeah, some learn better outside a class room environment. I was actually ok at languages, they weren't excessively hard or anything and although it was GCSE's I got a B in both French and Spanish which covers all the basics and I was able to have a conversation in either language, now I'm in college many years later I struggle to speak English properly..
To be honest I think the reason I didn't do so well in my German lessons, which was the language I did at GCSE, was because I spent most of my lessons just eating Pringles and throwing pencils across the room.
I took 3 years of Latin between Junior High and High School, and when I took French here at college, it helped me out a lot. It made me realize that I really like learning foreign languages
Well... One, it helps Develop your Brain. Two, It helps you understand the language you speak much more. Three, There's something called Affirmative Action, in which you must have an equal amount of employee's in a store. The exception is that if you can speak 2 languages, you are not subjective to it. At least, thats what I think. Four, Knowing two languages is pretty cool, you could flirt with a girl in a totally differnt language like French or Russian. Some girls think it's quite cute Five, It opens the world up more easily. Rather than going to say France not-knowing a word of french is pretty tough to enjoy the time there when you don't understand anything or can't understand any of the signs. Six, Knowing and understanding with comphrenshion of a foreign language could possibly open a whole field of business. Say you have an international business selling <super cool> product and you needed to talk to someone in spain about supply shipments. The Communications is vital to making deals! Seven, Learning another language is a trade. You can help people, sway people, talk to more people, have people give you some effort to have them heard. People will give quite-a-bit just to be heard and understood. Should it be mandatory to take Foreign languages in school? Well, I wouldn't answer that one unless pressed to do so. I would say yes though. There are more benefits than there are Losses. It's one of those classes that you can use after high school, every-day life, and is useful continually. It's kinda like a Life-class, I suppose.
Emphasis on mostly. Seriously though I should probably clarify here that I'm nowhere near the womaniser I make out that I am sometimes, and that most of that stuff is tongue in cheek.
I wasnt required to take a language in High School. I did, however, choose to take Japanese in college.