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Date Posted: 05:24:19 09/24/02 Tue
Author: Kathy Oskison
Subject: Re: Topic 16 : Do you feel it's important to develop biligual communication skills and Why?
In reply to: Emily Weaver 's message, "Re: Topic 16 : Do you feel it's important to develop biligual communication skills and Why?" on 20:36:12 09/23/02 Mon

>I agree Kiesha, I made my answer broad thinking I
>couldn't type more than 102 letters. I think it is
>important for others to learn about other cultures,
>and language has a lot to do with one's culture. You
>can see this with different dialects within the US. I
>think there is statistics that says the people in the
>United States is the least likely to be
>bilingual/multilingual compared to other countries.
>English in some cases is automatically a second
>language that is taught so a lot of other countries
>are automatically bilingual. What does this say about
>our country?
Reply:
It says about as much as our country not having good, affordable child care that is available to all, and a priority of our government. American seems to value its physical education and sports programs much more in the schools than its arts and languages programs.
KO

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Re: Topic 16 : Do you feel it's important to develop biligual communication skills and Why? -- Emily Weaver, 12:23:29 09/24/02 Tue