Language is power, to teach language is to empower.

I have enjoyed this blogging experience more than I though I would. I’m am quite interested in foreign languages and their teaching methods. As I look back to my opening post, I realize that I concentrated not at all on the expression of complex ideas through writing in a second language as I said I would. (I also never put information in my about me section as I claimed I would soon do.) I also notice that I believed immersion to be when a class is taught only in the language being learned and the native language is not spoken at all. I’ve since learned better after writing my post about the article describing the types of immersion education.

Throughout writing this blog, I have found that I am very disappointed in America’s general attitude on foreign languages. In reading articles on America’s foreign language education, I was always glad to find an excuse to rant on this topic. My belief that we must put much more emphasis on learning foreign languages has only been strengthened by this blog.

I hope my love of Linguistics encourages me to read and write more about languages in the future. I look forward to a career involving languages and hope to one day inspire America to pick up the foreign language pace.