Re: virtreal schooling

["Quan, Cao" <QCao009@AOL.COM>]

In a message dated 11/22/99 8:50:46 PM Central Standard Time,
shulamit@TRANSPORT.COM writes:

<< By the same token, I think it is a national shame that most places
 in the US do not require students to learn a second language. >>

Judi & Shulamit:

May be it's time that we look at the concept of native language fluency very
differently.  If there is a difference between intelligence and emotional
intelligence, I would argue that many so-called "native language" speakers of
English do not possess, or have any desire of achieving a linguistic
emotional flow.

And indeed, as someone who spent hours and hour conjugating verbs in 16
different languages, and wondered wide-eyed at the communications barriers of
all languages, I would also suggest that communication through language is
the barest form of communication.  And indeed there are many more...even
through the equalizing medium of technology.

May be the most appropriate final note is to borrow from your motto,
Shulamit, we should dance a language.  I bet we'd have no trouble finding
standards and tests for the language of that dance.  And we would also know
intuitively when we have it mastered.

Quan

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