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>Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 09:29:07 -0500
>Subject: Re: Definition of World Languages
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>From: [log in to unmask] (Gordon Hartig)

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I think this definition is fairly common, but mine is the perspective of
someone who was trained as a German teacher and who relies on the AATG as
a source of information.  The last statistics I saw did indeed show that
German and French both were taught to more students in more places around
the world as a foreign language than languages such as Chinese that have
significantly more native speakers.  In the last 10 years, too, the number
of students world-wide learning Russian as a foreign language has
declined.  The number of students learning Chinese and Japanese as a
foreign language has increased, but these languages still represent only a
small percentage of total foreign language enrollments.

Gordon Hartig
Language Lab
Middlesex Community College
Lowell, Mass.
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>On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, LLTI-Editor wrote:
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>> --- Forwarded Message from louis janus <[log in to unmask]> ---
>>=20
>> 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),=20
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>That's a pretty interesting definition.
>Is German really taught in more places that Chinese or Japanese or
>Russian?
>Just curious.
>Ed
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>Edmund N. Dente
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>Tufts University                   [log in to unmask]
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