From the VCU blog:
“If you’re going to be a 21st century journalist, you have to know Spanish,” said Stuart. He pointed out that the majority of American journalists today do not speak Spanish, or any other foreign language. As a result, large populations living in America are being excluded from the media.
“We’re missing telling their stories,” said Stuart. He added that usage of a translator was not nearly as effective because “things are lost in translation” and said that it is ideal to “cut the middle man” in order to capture a person’s true emotions and feelings about a situation.
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1 comments:
I see that President Barack Obama wants everyone to learn a foreign language, but which one should it be?
The British learn French, the Australians study Japanese, and the Americans prefer Spanish.Yet this leaves Mandarin Chinese and Arabic out of the equation.
Why not teach a common neutral non-national language, in all countries, in all schools, worldwide?
An interesting video can be seen at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8837438938991452670.
A glimpse of Esperanto can be seen at http://www.lernu.net
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