I really don’t see any immediate need to spend public money to bring back Spanish as a course offering in our schools, even in only a few chosen secondary schools. Those who are motivated to learn Spanish, those who have a need to learn Spanish should instead be directed to MERLOT ( http://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?category=2508& which provides materials (374 as of this writing) for learning Spanish 24/7 in a self-paced manner and for FREE. Some of the learning materials offer audio lessons from native Spanish speakers. A good place to start would be the learning material entitled “Spanish Grammar Book” by Enrique Yepes ( http://www.bowdoin.edu/~eyepes/newgr/ats/ ).
The point is, it is a whole lot cheaper to invest on classroom computers connected to the Internet than training teachers to teach Spanish and using teacher/student time for Spanish language instruction/learning. On top of that, we don’t waste the time of students who absolutely do not have a need to learn Spanish; these same students could use the time to learn something more important in uplifting their lives.
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Pearl of the Orient — in any language.
Someone sent me a FORWARD of pictures of popular, well-traveled places in the Philippines. Rather than scroll through the lovely images, I strung them together, chose a Raul Sunico piece as accompaniment and voila,the following YouTube item.If someone should dare con you to believe it’s the next best thing to being there, think NOT !
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