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Bienvenue à la section qui n'est pas en englais. 

I loveloveloveLOVE learning different languages. Living in Canada, the majority of us are taught the bare bones of la langue d'amour. If you live in the United States, it is my understanding that Spanish is taught in the younger years ("Otra cerveza por favor!" and that concludes my knowledge of the Spanish language. I'm working on that.) In Europe, students are given many opportunities to learn a variety of languages where they can be put to good use by jumping on a train and closing one's eyes for a few hours and - Voilà! - welcome to language-lover's paradise.

I cannot express how much languages mean to me. 

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Retake:

Seeing as I am enrolled in Writer's Craft, I am prompted to at least attempt to do so.

So your Grade 9 teacher has, more likely than not, given you the spiel that tries to sway you to continue using your second language in later years:

• it's good for your brain and defers Alzheimer disease when you have surpassed the ripe old age of the second generation's birth year
• you will open numerous windows of opportunity that depict the French countryside, or a vast desert with tumultuous winds kicking up sand into every crevasse, beyond the staid glossy surface. Whatever floats your boat... or keeps you hydrated and alive.
• you may have ancestors from before the Industrial Revolution who traveled to wherever it is that you live from wherever it was that they lived that spoke an alternate language
• the jolly, rollicking music from the Latin countries may call to your very shriveled, suffocated soul
• ce pourrait devenir votre raison d'être
• or perhaps you have a mind that runs like a Hemi; turbo-charged with Nitrous on the side, just in case. You need to take that baby for a spin, every once and a while.

But all of that does not fully encompass what knowing a second language means. It means another perspective; another persona; another voice and timbre. It means understanding and communication.

It means mutual respect. 

I don't know about you, mais je pense que je suivrai - et apprendrai - les langues partout où j'irai.

First I conquer French. Then I conquer the world! 

Mwahahahahahahahahha.