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From: bknochen@warp9.Materna.DE (Knochenhauer Bernd)
Subject: Re: English SUCKS, Chinese is the only language you need!!
Date: 1997/11/27
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In article <65hm4g$3na@corn.cso.niu.edu>, system@niuhep.physics.niu.edu wrote:
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>When you live within one day's travel of 2-5 different countries where
>they speak different languages it is considered useful to learn more
>than one language.

Not only then. It widens your view of the world around you.

>Most (all?) college-prep students in Germany know 3 languages by the time 
>they graduate from H.S..  

In theory: yes. Personally however, I almost successfully managed to
forget all the french I had to learn in school :) 

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Bernd Knochenhauer
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