Below is a response I gave to a friend's blog entry and it seemed enlightened enough to share apart from the entry it was in response to ( Read more... )

I am confused why Obama thinks that Spanish is any more special than any other language for students to learn. At a recent speech he specifically states that American students should learn Spanish as a second language, then later says learning another language, in general, helps broaden the mind about other ways of thinking and culture.

My question ( Read more... )