SPEAKING OF OTHER LANGUAGES [+] ballot by larrynelmira ACTIVE Sun Jun 17, 07 - Mon Jun 16, 08 I don’t understand The Elmira City School system, probably the same with school system across the country, but I’ll talk about the system I’m familiar with. We take the standard foreign language classes, the most popular are French and Spanish, although very few of my classmates including myself could survive in Paris or Madrid if only speaking those languages were required . . . That’s little sad, because I speak on line to people from all over the world, and if they didn’t speak English, needless to say, we would not be having conversations. Yes, I know, English is the Universal language of business and diplomacy, I hear many say, why learn another language, I can get by almost any place in the world by only speaking English. But how arrogant is that, we travel to another country and we expect them to know our language, some of the people I speak to on line come from fairly poor countries, Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, many are young, not college grads, but high school students or even lower levels and they speak excellent English. I’m actually trying to learn Arabic, ( That’s another ballot because you will be amazed at what some of my family and friends have said about that) anyhow, :) so many of my on line friends are from Arabic speaking countries, I thought it would be cool to speak that language, it’s a very hard, or it is for me, maybe not you. . The ballot question is, why can’t we be fluent in another language, what’s up with us? I am fluent in other languages English is only language I need to know I don’t know what’s up with us SORRY, THIS POLL IS NOW CLOSED. Ballot #115674 : Voting Finished : SEE RESULTS Comment: show your vote with comment?

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