Comments on: Rocket Spanish – Buy Your Way to Success in Spanish http://www.english-to-spanish-translator.info/blog/rocket-spanish/rocket-spanish-buy-your-way-to-success-in-spanish/ Learn Spanish Fast Without Effort Tue, 18 May 2010 20:10:54 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Brian Barker http://www.english-to-spanish-translator.info/blog/rocket-spanish/rocket-spanish-buy-your-way-to-success-in-spanish/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Brian Barker Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:28:45 +0000 http://www.english-to-spanish-translator.info/blog/?p=19#comment-13 Apparently President-elect Obama's education policy is for everyone to learn a foreign language? But which one should it be? The British learn French, the Australians study Japanese, and the Americans prefer Spanish. Yet this leaves Mandarin Chinese out of the equation. Why not Esperanto? Apparently UNESCO will meet in Paris, on 15th December, to acknowlege Esperanto, as a living language, in conjunction with the International Year of Languages The great thing about Esperanto is that, as a non-national language, it places all ethnic languages on an equal footing and therefore avoids discrimination against minority languages.An interesting video can be seen at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8837438938991452670. A glimpse of the language can be seen at http://www.lernu.net Apparently President-elect Obama’s education policy is for everyone to learn a foreign language? But which one should it be?

The British learn French, the Australians study Japanese, and the Americans prefer Spanish.

Yet this leaves Mandarin Chinese out of the equation. Why not Esperanto?

Apparently UNESCO will meet in Paris, on 15th December, to acknowlege Esperanto, as a living language, in conjunction with the International Year of Languages

The great thing about Esperanto is that, as a non-national language, it places all ethnic languages on an equal footing and therefore avoids discrimination against minority languages.An interesting video can be seen at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8837438938991452670. A glimpse of the language can be seen at http://www.lernu.net

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