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Title: Americans choose Chinese as second foreign language - Poll
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URL Source: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2012-02/13/content_14595367.htm
Published: Feb 13, 2012
Author: David Lariviere (chinadaily.com.cn)
Post Date: 2012-02-13 07:41:19 by Tatarewicz
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NEW YORK – Like a good academic person should do, Dr Jean Adilifu of the Medgar Evers College Preparatory School in Brooklyn, New York, did her homework before responding to questions relating to the recently released China Daily/Gallup poll. Speaking to a colleague the night before, the assistant principal for foreign languages for the school that requires all its sixth graders to take Chinese had her data at her fingertips. “Spanish is the No 1 foreign language offered in the schools across the country, French is second and Chinese is third – but growing exponentially,” Adilifu added. The results of a survey of 2,007 Americans and 250 opinion leaders, conducted last December, was a bit different when people were asked, “If you were given a chance to learn a new foreign language, which language would you rather learn?” Only four choices – Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic – were given as well as “none of the above”. Not surprisingly, Spanish was the easy winner with 58 percent but Chinese placed second at 15 percent. Arabic was third with 11 percent and Japanese totaled 10 percent. This is consistent with the US Census data of 2010 which showed English as the top spoken language in the US followed by Spanish and Chinese as the third.
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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
Let this be a warning to the La Raza crowd. We are preparing to replace you with units that operate less expensively.
What a rigged poll. My poll would have been vastly different if I had only offered French, German, Dutch, and Russian. “Spanish is the No 1 foreign language offered in the schools across the country, French is second and Chinese is third – but growing exponentially,”
#2. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
Only four choices – Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic – were given as well as “none of the above”.
-Alex Kurtagic
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