Re: Let's talk about langages (Advice/Help)

From: Mxsmanic (mxsmanic_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/16/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 06:43:32 +0200

Captain! writes:

> countries like the united states are full of immigrants who teach their
> native languages to students wishing to learn them.

Of all the French classes I took in the U.S., none was ever taught by a
native speaker of French. The same was true for German. Even in the
case of Spanish, only one teacher was actually a native speaker; several
of the others had the imperfect knowledge of the language that one can
obtain by growing up with parents who are native speakers--but sometimes
that's worse than not speaking the language at all, except for students
who prefer to learn vulgar Mexican slang instead of real Spanish.

> this has got to be one of the most pathetic america bashing reasons i have
> ever seen.

I don't see any connection to America-bashing. 

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