French and US high school language instruction

On 25 May 02, at 18:01, Thomas R. Wier wrote:

> I think this vastly oversimplifies why people in any
> given country tend to learn foreign languages in a given
> way.
[snip]
> (We often forget that, as conlangers, we like to learn
> languages which have more or less by definition no pragmatic
> value for us in the Real World. Most of mankind is, alas,
> not like us in this respect.)
Yay! I get to plug Mark Rosenfelder ;)

http://www.zompist.com/whylang.html
"When do people learn languages?"
(which also covers why people learn them, some language myths, and how
people go about learning languages)

A recent article -- it appeared on his Multiverse about two weeks ago,
IIRC.

Cheers,
Philip
--
Philip Newton <Philip.Newton@...>

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