{"id":922,"date":"2010-12-31T14:52:12","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T18:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/?p=922"},"modified":"2011-01-13T12:14:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T16:14:21","slug":"primero-hay-que-aprender-espanol-ranhou-zai-xue-zhongwen-first-learn-spanish-then-study-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/2010\/12\/31\/primero-hay-que-aprender-espanol-ranhou-zai-xue-zhongwen-first-learn-spanish-then-study-chinese\/","title":{"rendered":"Primero Hay Que Aprender Espa\u00f1ol. Ranhou Zai Xue Zhongwen."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(First learn Spanish.  Then study Chinese.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/30\/opinion\/30kristof.html\"><br \/>\nIn the December 29, 2010, <em>New York Times <\/em>, <\/a>Nicholas Kristof recommends Spanish comprehension for all Americans.  He concedes that Mandarin is the &#8220;it&#8221; foreign language in schools right now and indeed, recommends studying it, but Spanish should come first as it is no longer as &#8220;foreign&#8221; a language in the United States as it once was and will have increased importance as the economic mixing of Central, South, and North America continues.<\/p>\n<p>For an arts student, adding a language not only offers a passage to other cultures but an escape from the sealed envelope of one&#8217;s own. Crucial, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>The added employment credential is of course, not a trivial benefit in the current climate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(First learn Spanish. Then study Chinese.) In the December 29, 2010, New York Times , Nicholas Kristof recommends Spanish comprehension for all Americans. He concedes that Mandarin is the &#8220;it&#8221; foreign language in schools right now and indeed, recommends studying it, but Spanish should come first as it is no longer as &#8220;foreign&#8221; a language [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4539,4538,1773],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":996,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}