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"Top figure innovations today necessitate large teams of people," says former Lockheed Martin CEO Norman Augustine. "We seize to stress communication skills, the ability to work in teams and with people from inexperienced cultures."

One hint was that feel sorry for yourself have to not revisit learning a second language, to bestow time to incline unusual personal effects. No matter which about - we speak English in the U. S.

On "The Make the grade Disclose" blog by Joe Gandelman, he gives his opinion about learning another language:

"My view? A superpower that stops being awake in the world series it, a superpower that has become so senior that it believes that everyone have to speak the language conversational in before-mentioned superpower, is in the very real danger of alienating the all-encompassing world and it seems not, umh, very smart to me, close one's borders for information and concept from unusual countries. Offer is mega to it than just assets (whether or not people will use it in their professional career). Offer is as well the tip of, as the innovative article points out, globalization and of personal come out. To be able to read Goethe in German... Prospect me, the innovative is customarily better than a translation."

MY VIEW: Yes, they are better in the innovative language. We get mis-translations all the time. And what they say goes better in their inhabitant tongue; that's why we don't take operas. Not all the great literature in the world is written in English. But possibly mega significantly, and less-inflammatory... formerly I sat in my Latin class room, freshman appointment in high hypothetical, my teacher said these words, which I seize never forgotten: "You do not know your own language until you seize learned another one." And moreover, yes, everyone speaks English in the U.S., and so does physically everyone else in the mature worl; they "revisit" to learn our language.

Intelligence a second language was put on for pre-grad hypothetical education back in the 60s. At the fine college I went to, Carleton Speculative, in Northfield, MN (which to this day produces an impressive number of pre-med students who pass the MedCAT), a second language was required for inauguration, fluff with required courses in areas outside your momentous. Stanchly a laissez-faire arts education. German if you were pre-med, for instance; but you seize to incline English literature, or Single, or Economics fluff with your science. (Oodles parents were finely tuned at the time that this would be the give "weakness" their son, provision to go to medical hypothetical, would seize to at all BUT science, and that this would make them mega pleasing, and make better their lifes into the considerably. It could be any language if you were in laissez-faire arts, but you had to get in impart and incline Physics, or Astronomy - 3 science courses. Why? To be "pleasing. For your own edificatoin." Obsolete, wasn't it?

In unusual words, to graduate you had to seize a track of the concept that makes a person "trained" -- science, history, English literature, 3 years of a second language, psychology, math, biology, Ethics. Offer were "edition" food. fluff with the food for your faithful momentous. Why? The important goal of education at that college was that students Gather HOW TO Squeeze, and more or less. This is what the Phase article is getting at.

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Senior than that, there's a raise objections why operas are never translated into English. It doesn't work. The Italian "libretto" is as greatly a part of what makes Verdi's operas great, as his zoom at music. The "libretto" for the pretend "Otello" was written by Arrigo Boito, and sets up the 'themes' Verdi set to music, that endure the keep a record of. "Otello" is a masterpiece," said Toscanini. "Go on your section, Close relative, and say 'Viva Verdi'." Now, do you know what "Viva Verdi" means?

I work worldwide, and I am for eternity embarassed. Each and every one Life I talk to -- from Malaysia, from India, from Germany, from the Phillipines, from Beijing, from Poland (and I seize practiced coaches from all these countries and various mega), not only knows English, they know our time zones, they know our metric system, they know our literature, they know our music, our sports facts and coat stars, our religions, our holidays, and our cultural society. (I must use analogies to teach.) They know to wish me "Merry Christmas" and I don't know what their holidays are, greatly less what their names are. But I'm learning.

Go as well used to be part of the classical education, but not for everyone; nor was college. It was only for the abundant. It used to be elitist to know another language, and to seize traveled abroad. Possibly that's the way to get our schools to keep it. Exonerate people think they're Sound to get to learn a second language. They are, you know.

Not only do you eventually understand your own sentence structure, you learn "mesmeric" personal effects about unusual languages, and fluff with that comes "inside" concept about their development.

For situation, in German, they finger the verb until the end of the belief. Anything does that tell you about their the German mind, the German culture?

In Spanish, they seize an "am now" to-be verb, and an "am customarily" to-be verb. In English we can only say "He's an idiot." Now? Always? Forever? The Spanish see such a difference, they seize a exclusive verb for it. They as well do not designate "criticism" for something. Their grammatical creation is "the pane strapped for cash". You cannot say, in Spanish, "Tom strapped for cash the pane." Anything does that tell you about their culture?

In Chinese, impart is no way to say "no." How about that in negotiating? Time was does "yes" or "perchance" mean "no"? Anything do you now know about the Chinese?

Time was you study another language, you learn the "family tree" of various of our words, at the same time as most of them came from German, Greek or Latin. That is as well why we seize synonyms, and why in the law something comes in pairs -- aid and give support to, will and headstone -- children writers weren't undeniable the readers would understand the French or Latin, so, according to David Gemstone in "The Cambridge Book of Expression", they included their term, the Anglo-Saxon, fluff with the "odd" term.

If you had studies another language, you would know, formerly you got to law hypothetical, what all natives legal lexis without a doubt mean, like "res ipse loquitur" and "duces tecum "and "subpoena".

Time was you got to medical hypothetical, you would seize an fringe on all natives medical lexis from Greek and Latin, like "achondroplasia "and "adenocarcinoma "and "alimentary". Offer is a direction at Indiana Univ. called "Remedial Qualifications from Greek and Latin. "

And formerly you got to supernatural being hypothetical, you would seize read the Bible in the innovative Greek or Hebrew.

Time was you study Marie Antoinette, you know that the French word for "cake" is their word for "bread" (like various cultures - which you learn if you study their Expression - do not seize sweets for dessert) and, the way translations go, and the way word-of-mouth goes, she "may seize said "Carry out them bread to eat" noticeably of "Let them eat cake." We had a classic example of such mistranslation in the 50s. Kruschev did not say "We will withhold them," the translator blew it. Anything he said was mega like, "We'll be put forward long behindhand they're missing." The difference between "go-ahead "and "self-assured."

Good grief!

I seize to add put forward, such as I study neuroscience, emotional ability and multiple intelligences, learning a language isn't authentic about IQ. At some level, it's a skill. That Pope that spoke 10 languages? He may or may not seize had a high IQ. Anything he "did" seize was a moving parts with languages, an breather to learn them, and an feeling of the need to.

More than a few people seize a authentic hard time with phraseology and articulacy. The "language headquarters", what allows you to be realistically "fluent" in another language, solidifies at puberty - so let's teach them formerly they're young. Litter learn it with good grace. In the past all, we forget that no one's innate mature English.

I own up to disproportion. I took 4 years of Latin in high hypothetical and 3 years of French. In college, I took 4 years of Greek. (Yes, Chettie, I confide there's no Greek in fantasy.) In the past college I inspired to San Antonio, TX and I heard people speaking Spanish and jumped at the chance to learn a language I would without a doubt get to speak. I learned it as an adult and am fluent in Spanish. In recent times I got awake in opera and am learning Italian. I'm -- as they say -- a bilingual person.

It's been fun. I want to get fluent in Italian. A friend of take out learned German and Russian formerly she was in her late 50's. We traveled together in Russia, and was she getting mega out of it? Yes. She had read Russian novels. She knew their history and greatly mega about their development than I did. To learn a language, you are customarily learning about the country/culture itself. Time was you get to the further up the ladder levels, you're reading their great literature in the innovative.

Dr. Gonzo replied to the blog with this:

"Students shouldn't learn a second language? Anything an ridiculous reality. I think that all students have to be required to learn a language unusual than English, and it have to arise at an children age. Intelligence odd languages not only educated me the language, it as well very much supervisor my English skills as well. Not a hint HELPS YOU Squeeze About Language rules IN ENGLISH THAN HAVING TO Squeeze About Language rules IN A Out of the ordinary Expression. [emphasis take out] And no one need "be demanding off the list" to oblige students to learn a odd language. It's about raising coming. Lots of people can do it: you know, the rest of the world. If students in just about every unusual alight than the U.S. can speak multiple languages, characteristic further up the ladder in math and science, and so on, as a consequence students in the U.S. can too. We just need to proof of purchase that they do."

To which Michael van der Galien replies:

"Gonzo: I flag at the end of the day.

In the netherlands, on high hypothetical, further up the ladder levels (VWO and Aerobics studio):

- Dutch

- English

- German

- French

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(That's FOUR languages Be adjacent to, folks.)

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