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With the five languages offered, raB
students had a wide variety of choices . ~
These many options proved beneficial to
students because they taught not only the lr
basics of the language, but they would T~~cla.ue.!
also help the students in the future. IJ)IJtt;10/uM;6g. J~
Many students opted to take a
fo reign language to have a break in the b«MJPJ Oftk~dj.of
monotony of the school day, while others clwtce.! o(jvtd. .M~
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found they had a niche for learning lan- J~ tk!PJcla.ue.!
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"I took both Latin and Japanese o{-rkPv~ ~rilhAJ
because languages ioohd1fo~a&
have always come p~® fo-v~
easy to me ," senior oaq;rilio<IJ . ~
Dave Craven said.
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many first year stu- bPJ /); kdp{ut o.tfdt1ow.; 1fo
dents found the new -rkiJvJ~.
languages some-
thing they would
have to grow accus-
tomed to.
"Spanish is
one of my tougher
classes because it
is so different from
the rest. I think I just
have to get used to
the change," fresh-
Focusing all her attenti on on her man MikeZagurski
Spani sh novel, La Casa Embrujada, is said.
sophomore Colleen Glowen. Students
in Spani sh III classes used their fo reign While stu-
language kn owledge to indulge in many dents often looked
novels th at were required as part of the toward older sib-
course curri culum . photo by Becky lings as a means of
Bowers
determining which language to study, oth-
ers have always known which they would Constructing a human
prefer and how they would use it in the 1 apanese character are
sophomore Megan
future. Thomas and freshman
"I have always been interested in Wend y Robertson.
Japanese and would love to one day live Constructing human
in Japan and teach English there," senior characters was a unique
Regina Peterson said. way of learning the
di ffic ult 1 apanese
Put in certain situations , knowing alphabet. photo by
a foreign language helped many students. Jennie Gates
"Sixty-five percent of the English
language is derived from Latin , so under-
standing the origin of many words helped
on the ACTs," Craven said .
The study of a foreign language
provided students with ideas for their fu -
ture careers and made them more well-
rounded individuals.
By Colleen Whalen