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>From: "Polly LYNN" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum" <[log in to unmask]>
>References: <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: Re: #5561.4 Italian (!) (now German vs. Chi/Jp)
>Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 12:33:02 -0600
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You asked, "Is German really taught in more places that Chinese or Japanese
or
Russian?
Just curious."
Ed
Dear Ed,
If this is a serious question, here is a serious answer for St. Louis. Yes
German is taught quite a bit more than Japanese and Chinese. I think German
is bigger here than on the coasts because the Midwest had so many German
immigrants in the late 19th c. We have fewer Asian immigrants than say the
west coast and New York City. Nevertheless, here are our numbers.
St. Louis has 1006 foreign language teachers in the schools and colleges, of
whom 133 teach German, 16 teach Japanese,
13 teach Chinese or Tibetan, 17 teach Hebrew , 13 Russian, and 3 Arabic. We
can assume most of the rest are Spanish and French, with some Italian,
Greek, and Latin too. I thought it interesting that many of the German
teachers are teaching something in addition to German, for example Spanish
or department chair, etc.
public high schools
German teachers: 80
Japanese teachers: 3
Chinese: 2
Hebrew: 2-3
Russian 2
Arabic 1
private schools
German : 17
Japanese: 1
Chinese: 1
Hebrew: 5
Russian: 2
colleges
German 36
Japanese 12
Chinese 9 and one Tibetan
Hebrew (as modern languag or Biblical) 9
Russian 9
Arabic 2
Polly Lynn
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Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: #5561.4 Italian (!)
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>Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 14:11:40 -0500 (EST)
>From: Ed Dente <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #5561.3 Italian (!)
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On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, LLTI-Editor wrote:
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> My suggestion about finding places to study less commonly taught languages
> (and we define LCTL as all human languages except English, French, German,
> and Spanish),
That's a pretty interesting definition.
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Edmund N. Dente
Director, Language Media Center Ph: 617-627-3036
Tufts University [log in to unmask]
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