Foreign Language at a Younger Age
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Author: M & P. T.
Started: March 4, 2006, 1:52:45 am
Target: Schools
Category: Education
Supporters:

9
Goal:

100,000
Goal Progress:

1% Complete
Status

Active
In our schools currently, most students are not exposed to a foreign language until around the seventh grade. Many do not even continue it through twelfth grade. This limited foreign language instruction has resulted in few students being able to speak and read a foreign language with a useful degree of fluency. In essence then, this instruction has little long term value to them.

In virtually every other country, students are fluent in two or more languages. Here in the United States, in our infinite egotism, we seek to be accommodated, rather than to accommodate. This affects how we are viewed in the international forum. As we are not an island, we would be more competitive and our lives would be richer if we had a greater ability to communicate with our neighbors.

Furthermore, educational studies have shown that children are more receptive and readily able to learning a new language at a younger age. This is because language patterns and structures are not so deeply engrained in their psyche. Because of this, they pick up new languages quicker and more easily.

Please support our initiative for foreign language education at a younger age by your signature below:




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Nick FitzGerald said 11/06/08, 12:49 pm (verified)
I support this petition.
#9

Mar Kardenas said 12/27/06, 3:32 am (verified)
I support this petition. In Britain a new project has been launched to have Esperanto taught in primary schools as an encouraging introduction to the study of traditional languages in secondary schools. The United Nations should support it. Please read the website: www.springboard2languages .org/
#8

Sunny said 03/05/06, 4:02 am (verified)
I strongly support this petition. I believe that learning a new language makes one a more globally literate citizen who can participate in a greater, richer variety of life experiences and perspectives that involve accessing and creating sources of information, entertainment, humour and/or persuasion that are for non-English speaking audiences.
#7

Bob said 03/04/06, 8:22 pm (verified)
If we are going to start so late, it is will be waste of time.
#6

Hmph! said 03/04/06, 7:42 pm (verified)
My French lessons were the bestest thing ever!!!!!!!!, but then someone different started teaching them, and so they were only the best.
#5

Unwanted prsence said 03/04/06, 12:49 pm (verified)
In N.Ireland, we only start learning languages in year 8 (which is a year after the american 7th grade (we spend more time in primary school (or grade school))) I agree. If I had learnt french when I was younger, all my suffering of boring lessons would be in the past and I could enjoy ife more now! MY FRENCH LESSONS BORE ME TO DEATH!!!!!!!!
#4

Martha Cardenas said 03/04/06, 6:04 am (verified)
Yes, absolutely! Waiting until the kids are in high school is just plain unwise. Better yet, teach them a language that wil facilitate and expedite the learning of others, Esperanto! www.petitionspot.com/peti tions/ESPERANTO Dankon!, Thanks! Merci! Grazie! ¡Gracias! Arigato!
#3

Patrick T. said 03/04/06, 3:12 am (verified)
I support this petition.
#2

The Wild Dada Ducks said 03/04/06, 1:52 am (verified)
Horace Gerstenblut n'existe pas.
#1