Re:What speaking a foreign language says about you
by iamdave on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @09:26AM
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There are a lot of very poor correlations made here, VERY poor.
I only know enough Spanish to greet the janitor at work, and even then it's a cordial "amigo!" as we pass one another, a smile and a handshake.
However, I'm an avid trombone player who can read and transpose bass, treble and tenor clef and even taught a group of friends a lot about music theory as we sat around a bong one night in college. A lot of the implied correlations in that chart, statistical or not seem to have political leanings.
I only know enough Spanish to greet the janitor at work, and even then it's a cordial "amigo!" as we pass one another, a smile and a handshake.
However, I'm an avid trombone player who can read and transpose bass, treble and tenor clef and even taught a group of friends a lot about music theory as we sat around a bong one night in college. A lot of the implied correlations in that chart, statistical or not seem to have political leanings.
I think what these types of articles really illustrate is that education can be another form of bling.