New Language in Schools

[cleocancer]

don't know if this is the correct forum but here goes. the papers here are talking about schools that teach kids foreign languages, the current ones are french, spanish and some schools italian and/or german, now they are saying they want to start adding chinese at the elementary school level because China is getting to be so big in the new global market. any thoughts?

[Cloverfield]

*Moved to the general chat section*

[frys_red_jacket]

i wouldn't have minded learning chinese when i was in school

[Sweetened Angel]

i did learn how sign language before. that all i know.

[wwwwNAMEwwww]

here it is pointless because we do not have a large chineese population like we have hispanic. at least there are local people in the area to speak spanish with. we just got rid of the japaneese program in our elementary schools. you can still take it in middle school on but basic spanish skills are needed here.

[cleocancer]

that was my thinking when I heard about it. In New England most of the kids studied french because of the proximity to Canada, and from New Jersey to florida they studied spanish because of the huge influx of spanish cultures. Hispanic is the fastest growing immigration group so I would think they would concentrate more on that than Chinese.

[Pazuzu]

I know a bit of Chinese to speak, although I can't write it... i know Hello, I am English and the numbers 1 to 10

[frys_red_jacket]

cool, must be pretty hard to learn chinese or even japnese