languages in Europe and how to overcome

Artur Ferreira da Silva artsilva at mail.eunet.pt
Mon Jul 14 04:10:35 PDT 2003


At 16:15 13-07-2003 -0400, Joelle Lyons Everett wrote:

>I am encouraged by seeing small steps toward valuing all the languages people
>speak.  Of my four children, two speak a second language fluently and know
>something about another culture--one has lived two years in France, the other
>lived and worked in Japan for five years.

That's true, Joelle. Things are changing. As you are probably aware, last
year my youngest son, Pedro, has lived one year in the USA (Wisconsin),
living with an American family and studing at a  public school his last
year of High School (he was there in the 9/11 but I have decided not to
comment more on that, as the USA spying system is everywhere including in
public e-mail lists).

The family that received Pedro has a son one year youger (that is now my
son's american "brother") and the following year they sent their son to the
Neederlands for one year. Spencer has been recently 15 days in Lisbon, in
his way back to the States, and he told me that he learned TWO European
languages, as he was in a region with double language - they used one at
home (I don't remenber what) and the oficial language of the country at
scholl. As he also understands a little Spanish, here is an American boy
that now understands 4 languages and his fully prepared for a global world.

Regards

Artur

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