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Foreign Language Education in the News
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I’ve come across a few interesting articles this week that I’d like to share. Here are some news stories from the world of foreign language education:
Utah leads the nation in public school students learning Mandarin. Not only is there a high percentage of secondary students learning Chinese, but the language is finding its way into [...]
Dinosaur in Foreign Languages: Spanish, French, German and More
If my own two boys are any indication, kids looooooove dinosaurs! Use these fascinating creatures to teach children about languages. Sir Richard Owen, an English biologist, used Greek terms to give dinosaurs their name back in 1841: deinos means terrible or fearfully great, and saurus means lizard. The Latin term for dinosaur is Dinosauria. [...]
