Originally Posted by Analise
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!!
Cooper Union has continuing ed foreign language classes for $230 for 10 weeks but its only french, spanish and italian. Here is the link:
http://www.cooper.edu/ce/language.html
I think foreign language in HS was like taking trigonometry... did we really think we would use it in the 'real world'? I can barely do long division without some help!