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Old 03-16-2010, 05:24 PM   #34
amorak
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I attended full french immersion from ECS through Grade 12 and besides a summer job as a Customs Officer, it opened precisely zero doors for me in Western Canada

With that said, I think learning a second language (at least as a child) really helps a brain develop learning skills that help through your entire life.

Also, knowing French is a bonus if you're going traveling, obviously.

If you're looking to learn it as an Adult there's probably a reason (job, travel, l'amour) then I would look at what you need it for - if you need conversational french, maybe a course where you can practice it works best. If you just need reading and writing for some gov't job, then maybe Rossetta would be good, but I don't know for sure, just a hunch from learning it...

All I know is you need to use it or lose it... Or else you'll end up in Paris, in a cafe, trying to remember what a lemon is again mid-sentence while ordering and call it a "lee-mon" instead of citron
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