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President Obama Wants You to Learn Spanish (short video)

by admin

Just found this, I smiled a bit, kind of funny (“Merci beau coup!” lol), but he’s absolutely right:

Most Western Europeans speak at least two languages fluently, and someone speaking 5 or 6 isn’t the least bit abnormal or special over there at all.  The fact that we’re a first-world, wealthy nation and we’re also the worst, among first-world wealthy nations such as Western Europe, Canada and Japan, when it comes to language education is just embarrassing.  Our education system is bad enough, this is just one more facet of it :(

Why do you think it is that we are this way (the worst as far as language education goes amongst wealthy nations)?  Seriously, let me know, leave a comment.

How I learned Spanish on my own, from home, using free online resources in 6 months despite failing Spanish AND Russian in school

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  • http://www.mosalingua.com Sam (MosaLingua)

    Motivation is really important to learn a language.
    And I can understand that most american lacks a goal. What the matter of learning a foreign language as everybody speaks english ? At school, I was very bad in language classes, because the teacher was not really motivating, but I didn’t see the interest for myself (I was a bit stupid and lazy ;-) . But later, I found some interest to improve my bad english and learn spanish from scratch (I learned German for my second language). And it was easy, because the motivation was here…

  • admin

    Bingo. It’s all about motivation (and having a great teacher, or not, makes HUGE difference, of course). If you’ve got the will, there is a way, no matter what.

    I had no interest in learning French in high school, so I didn’t despite 4 years of classes.

    I had no interest in learning Spanish in college (University), so I didn’t.

    When I decided I wanted to learn Spanish, I did, and I learned quickly. Same thing with Japanese.

    Our problem here in the U.S. is that we’re isolated, we’ve got Mexico next door but the great, great majority of Americans will never HAVE to interact with them (and even if they do, they’ll often speak English), Canadians speak English, and…that’s it. It’s not like Europe where you all are surrounded by people who all speak a different language. Plus, your educational system is better than ours, generally speaking.

    Cheers,
    Andrew