[nabs-l] Choosing a Foreign Language

[Mary Donahue]

Hello Elizabeth and listers,

    Speaking from personal experience, I chose Spanish because the 
pronunciation and phonetics are very easy to grasp. During my third year of 
college, I found out that beginning Italian was going to be offered, so, 
since Italian was very similar to Spanish, I took it and had fun with it. 
Unfortunately, when the second semester of the Italian course was offered a 
year later, I was already carrying fourteen credits, and did not want to 
overload my class load with four more.

    Getting back to Spanish, I ended up being a Spanish major, so naturally, 
I tend to suggest that language. You may want to talk to other students who 
have taken other languages these colleges offer.

    At any rate, those are my two cents' worth.

Mary Donahue


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elizabeth" <lizmohnke at hotmail.com>
To: <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 7:49 PM
Subject: [nabs-l] Choosing a Foreign Language



Hello List,

I have been looking over the requirements of a particular degree I am 
interested in obtaining and noticed that it has a foreign language 
requirement. I’m not as afraid about how to take a foreign language class as 
a blind student as much as I am about how to go about deciding which 
language I should take. Back when I went to high school, there were only two 
foreign languages to choose from, and since I enjoyed my art and journalism 
electives, I chose to take neither of them.

However, in today’s college environment it appears as though it is no longer 
a simple choice between French or Spanish. The community college I am 
currently attending has French, Spanish, German, Japanese, and Vietnamese. 
In addition, the four year college I would like to transfer into offers 
courses in Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Italian, Portuguese, 
Russian, Swahili, and Ojibwa. So with all these options, does anyone have 
any advice on how I could go about picking the right one for me? I have a 
few ideas in mind, but I am interested in hearing how other students have 
gone about making this decision.

Thanks,
Elizabeth
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