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--- Forwarded Message from [log in to unmask] (Gordon Hartig) --- >Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 09:29:07 -0500 >Subject: Re: Definition of World Languages >To: [log in to unmask] >From: [log in to unmask] (Gordon Hartig) ------------------ 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. > >---------------- >On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, LLTI-Editor wrote: > >> --- 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 > >That's a pretty interesting definition. >Is German really taught in more places that Chinese or Japanese or >Russian? >Just curious. >Ed > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Edmund N. Dente >Director, Language Media Center Ph: 617-627-3036 >Tufts University [log in to unmask] >