Learning a New Language

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Janitza Bonilla Professor Hiraldo ENA 101-0707 29 April 2013 Learning a new language is a great thing to do, but it is not easy to do. There are some people that say studying a foreign language in high schools or in college is a student option. The problem stands between the difference of students being able to take a foreign language class and students not being able to take a foreign language. Does a student need to take a class that requires them to learn a different language? Should the schools give the students the decision whether they want to learn a new language or not? Or even what benefits or non-benefits would a student get if he or she chooses to or not to study a language that she already know? With so much guesstimate, this topic has become a very interesting argument. First of all, learning a foreign language will not only provide students a way to communicate with people around the world, but it also helps students access knowledge from others countries such as from books, film, articles. For example, according to the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at California State University, Fullerton (hss; fullerton), “Most of the world’s literary and artistic works have been written in languages other than English; A translation is always to a large degree subject to the interpretation of the translator, not least because some elements of languages simply don’t have translations in other languages. To be able to fully appreciate literature, theater, music, and film in other languages, one must be able to access them in their original form”, (2) which means students that accepts the fact of learning another language instead of their own will give them the opportunity to interpret literature, theater, music, and film the way that it is presented and also it can help students expand their knowledge about the world in order to study
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