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Lydia Leftcoast

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8. I have encountered snooty attitudes against Spanish

Reply to JennyD (Reply #7)

Tue Mar 25, 2014, 01:02 PM

Mar 2014

Until the mid 1990s, Reed College in Portland, Oregon, which has very high admissions standards and attracts a lot of brilliant non-conforming types, did not have a Spanish department, nor could you start Spanish there. They offered only second-year Spanish for those who had taken it in high school.

They did have full French, German, Russian, Latin, and Greek programs.

Finally, in the late 1990s, they added Spanish and Chinese.

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IME, American public schools tended to teach French more than any other language. [View all] raccoon Dec 2012 OP

It was the prestigious foreign language and the language of international diplomacy Lydia Leftcoast Dec 2012 #1

Incredible! " ONE Mexican restaurant in the entire Twin Cities metropolitan area" raccoon Dec 2012 #2

Was the restaurant "Little Tijuana"? geardaddy Dec 2012 #3

No, it was La Casa Coronado in St. Paul Lydia Leftcoast Dec 2012 #4

Yep, that makes sense. geardaddy Dec 2012 #5

Maybe social class matters? JennyD Mar 2014 #7

I have encountered snooty attitudes against Spanish Lydia Leftcoast Mar 2014 #8

When I was going to high school AsahinaKimi Feb 2013 #6