Help Your Child Compete in the Global Marketplace
Why Study Foreign Languages?
- Broadens your experiences; expands your view of the world
- Encourages critical reflection on the relation of language and culture, language and thought; fosters an understanding of the interrelation of language and human nature
- Develops your intellect; teaches you how to learn
- Teaches and encourages respect for other peoples
- Builds practical skills (for travel or commerce or as a tool for other disciplines)
- Improves the knowledge of your own language through comparison and contrast with the foreign language
- Exposes you to modes of thought outside of your native language
- Expands opportunities for meaningful leisure activity (travel, reading, viewing foreign language films)
- Contributes to achievemnet of national goals, such as eceonomic development or national security
- Contributes to the creation of your personality
- Enables the transfer of training (such as learning a second foreign language)
Here is your opportunity to learn SPANISH or FRENCH or MANDARINE
