From the September 7, 2008 edition of the Ann Arbor News - "If third-graders are to be taught foreign languages, Ann Arbor parents should be offered a choice of which languages their children will learn. In terms of what would be useful to our children, Spanish is a very poor choice. Spanish-speaking cultures and societies are neither economically vibrant nor socially and environmentally progressive."
The volume of business we do with the German-speaking countries of the world is far larger than the trade we do with Spanish-speaking counties. The amount of engineering and software development done in German is much greater than that being done in Spanish.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Let's Talk about Deutsch!
Well, why would anybody want to study the German language? Well, maybe because Microsoft writes and sells more software in German than it does in Spanish.
Or maybe because the United States does more business (measured in dollars of import and export) with the German-speaking countries of the world (Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Germany) than we do with all the Spanish-speaking countries combined.
Or maybe because most universities in the United States recommend German, not Spanish, for students who are seeking graduate degrees in Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Business, Economics, and other fields.
The real question is: why would anybody want to study Spanish?
Or maybe because the United States does more business (measured in dollars of import and export) with the German-speaking countries of the world (Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Germany) than we do with all the Spanish-speaking countries combined.
Or maybe because most universities in the United States recommend German, not Spanish, for students who are seeking graduate degrees in Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Business, Economics, and other fields.
The real question is: why would anybody want to study Spanish?
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