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While many of us are pursuing credits or degrees, most of us also like to learn just for the fun of it. So... here's the BBC site. Scroll down, and you'll see tabs for learning a few languages. Pretty neat. I thought that I'd give Spanish a go.
BBC - Homepage Have fun, and don't forget to do the exercises.
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Living in Europe and Asia, it was amazing to see how many people speak 2 or more languages. We Americans are are so stubborn with speaking English only.
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Well, I think learning another language is a very enriching thing, but the majority of people learning a language don't do it for pleasure, it's out of necessity. Either the environment they're in requires it, or they'll get some kind of benefit for doing it. English is way too international, you can essentially survive with English in any corner of the globe (in fact you can go to any corner of the globe to teach it, like myself). So we're a bit spoiled in that respect, and we're lazy, not too motivated to learn another language. Not justifying it, but it's unavoidable.
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