SPANISH TWO
¿Por Qué Español?
In Spanish 2 I would like to learn more about the Spanish culture and be comfortable speaking when I'm in a country whose main language is Spanish. As Capt. Marc Jacobson claims in the article Some Side Benefits of Learning Both a Foreign Language and a Foreign Culture, “You learn what vocabulary is important, what language learning techniques work, how to make relationships, what skills are important, what details to pay attention to. These skills will carry over to other languages and other cultures in the future (Ricks, 2010).” To me this perspective is important because being open to learning the ins and outs of a culture are what will build your understanding of that culture, and as stated in this article, you can transfer this learning to any other languages you wish to learn. This is the kind of thinking I would like to acquire this year in Spanish 2.