Quote Originally Posted by Beefy187 View Post
Also other then Canadians speaking both English and French, do many American/ English school offer a course on foreign language? If so how effective are they?


In Louisiana we have full immersion schools, where children learn all their non English subjects in another Language, usually French or Spanish, but I think a couple are expanding into Mandarin. The program was started and promoted by CODOFIL, Conseil pour le développement du français en Louisiane, in an attempt to save the language diversity that had existed for centuries in our state.


What you have to realize about the U.S. linguistically, is that in the post WWI environment of the 20s on through the 1960s, there was a strong movement to make English the one Language of this nation. My grandparents generation was literally beaten for speaking French or Cajun in school. So, many of them decided not to teach their children the language, and save them the stigma.