Learning a Second Language Over Internet by dancingnancy533

Life Would Be More Interesting If Everyone Was Animated! > I have always wanted to learn a second language and become bilingual.  As the future continues to roll on, the U.S. is moving towards becoming a bilingual nation with Spanish as its lingua franca.  This is way in the not so distant future, teacher education programs will have to require students to take a couple foreign language courses to tweak their communication skills.  While a couple classes will not make them experts in Spanish, it will be a start to obtaining the necessary skills to teach to all students.<

Hola Dancing Nancy. I don’t want to seem overly sensitive BUT I need to say that although this may be a good internet site that you recommend and it would probably be very helpful, I can honestly say that “a couple of foreign language classes”  is certainly not enough to take for anyone and expect to be able to even begin to teach it! I started out as a native speaker and for me to even feel somewhat comfortable teaching Spanish, I had to take quite a few more hours than that.  A minor would be a better prep but ideally, I would recommend a major in the target language!  If I could have gotten my classes without traveling to Morehead, a masters in Spanish would have been best!

Granted, online Spanish may be helpful to those who are very interested, self motivated,  and focused but it would take much more than ”a couple of classes” to be able to teach it. That’s like saying that just because I took biology in my general  education classes, that I would know enough to teach it.  NOT (at least NOT ME).  : )

Any other thoughts on this?

Gracias for the suggested link. I will check it out! : )