Originally Posted by wanderlust_jules
Thanks for the link, I'll check it out. I agree its a shame the US doesn't encourage learning foreign languages beyond the 2 years of high school, but I think its largely because we don't need to.
We can all speculate as to why. I'm inclined to think that the foreign language departments in the schools don't want their teachers teaching 4 full years of french, german, spanish, italian, latin.... That would mean hiring more teachers.
My french has gotten very rusty. I might look into refresher courses too. I like this thread!!