Grade and high school students – if you are not learning a foreign language, why not?
Is it not required? Is it not available? If it seems too hard, what could be done to help you through the difficulty?
I just wonder because we have a tremendous need for foreign language speakers in business and in defense, yet colleges and universities are struggling to fill some vital programs like Arabic and Mandarin (yes, I know these languages are difficult for English speakers).
LC – tell your son to keep studying. The languages of Dari, Pashtu, Farsi, Cantonese, Mandarain, Gujarati, and Urdu are very badly needed right now.
The president of Anheuser-Busch China spoke to a class at our college last month and said he'd offer a job to anyone who had any experience in the industry and spoke Mandarin.
Tell your son he can write his own ticket if he keeps studying.
Chefengol, thank you for presenting the need for learning, as you can see by my own ignorance.
Foreign language study has been cut from the budget in elementary and middle schools here. The schools had horrible budget deficits and foreign language, art, and music programs are taking the worst hits.
I know that foreign languages are important. My three older children studied Spanish and German and two of them spent considerable time in Europe during summer breaks. My daughter speaks German and Italian and will start learning French this year. My eldest has studied Spanish, Arabic, and Russian–he's got a great aptitude for languages. I'll show him your question. It may give him some inspiration, which he needs at the moment.
Thanks for posting this.
The Imam Warsh School is a branch of Zaytuna Institute. It is for students from 7-14 years of age. The focus of this school is to instill in our youth love of the Quran as well as to inculcate self-discipline and respect for the chivalrous characteristics of the Muslims of the past. We provide instruction in the memorization of Quran and fundamentals of the Arabic language.