So how is a boy to decide what language to take when he starts high school?
Thomas wants to take a language, Toby doesn't. That's fine, but how do you choose? If you pick the wrong one you have wasted a whole year learning the wrong one and are a year behind everyone else and probably unable to take a different language the following year.
He has picked French at the moment. His reason being this........ He listened to a guest speaker at a computers in education competition last year, who worked at Google. This man really changed Thomas's whole thinking of the future. He was adamant when he left school he was going to work at Google. (him and thousands of others around the world I thought!) Well he was only 12 at the time and here we are a year later and he still feels the same way. He figured if he learnt French he would have more chance of being understood if he travelled to Europe later on and worked at Google, if English was not the language of that country.
As for Japanese, he loves the idea of learning to write it, and Japan after all is at the forefront of the computing world isn't it? Also his cousin Ayden completed his degree in Wellington and minored in Japanese and is now living in Japan, in a place called Tittori, teaching English as part of the JET programme. Thomas thinks this is cool too, and why wouldn't you want to follow in the footsteps of such a fine role model? However Japan is the only country that speaks Japanese and France is not the only country that speaks French! (we watch the amazing race, they speak it in Africa!)
So come on, what's a boy to do? Do we follow the Google path, or the Cousin path? The decision is in the hands of cyberspace!
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well i think he should do french as it is spoken in a lot of countries.good luck
What a tricky decision, I would have to go with the Japanese though, it would open up a whole world of opportunities to a boy in the future, teaching in Asian countries, tutoring ESOL students, teaching English to Asian students, hospitality work . . . the list is endless really. But that is only my opinion . . .
That's interesting Charlie, I think what you will find is that people from the top of the world would say learn French because it is geography closer to them and they have more exposure, whereas people in the bottom of the world would say Japanese.
What do you think Mr Hunt? You see people from overseas all the time?
Well i would say either would be good to have but French is spoken in more countries alright!! French is an easy enough language to learn too. Craig is doing French and Greman and chose Art over Latin. Tres bien,au revoir, Viv
He is going to go with French. It is right that the only place to speak Japanese is in Japan. You do not need to know how to speak Japanese to teach English in Japan and also you can only work there for 2-3 years and only in the education sector. The only way to work in another field is if you are transferred by your company you work for. So even if he learns French he can still go to Japan and teach English. Hey after all this he might even throw it all away after the first year! Thanks for your feedback and thanks to my nephew Ayden in Japan for the email, big help.
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