[Newsbot]

Title: Canadian spies heading overseas to learn Arabic
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: wildrosegirl
Date: 2010-07-14 07:34:01
Canadian

[Choban]

One would think there are enough Arabs in Canada to teach them?

[Benn]

Well yeah but this way they can learn from them in more than one way while in their country

[bootlegga]

This is an excellent idea.

It's better to learn a foreign language in a fully immersed environment. When you get dropped into a foreign culture and speak it 24/7, you learn the nuances and subtleties far better than by speaking to someone in Canada for a few hours a day.

For example, I can speak far better Japanese than I can German, even though I have many more years of language classes in German than Japanese. That's the difference between spending two years in a foreign country and years and years in Canada.

[Benn]

bootlegga bootlegga:

This is an excellent idea.

It's better to learn a foreign language in a fully immersed environment. When you get dropped into a foreign culture and speak it 24/7, you learn the nuances and subtleties far better than by speaking to someone in Canada for a few hours a day.

For example, I can speak far better Japanese than I can German, even though I have many more years of language classes in German than Japanese. That's the difference between spending two years in a foreign country and years and years in Canada.

The Media is ignorant, they don't bother to do some minor research to find out that this is not a new thing within the Government. Foreign Affairs sends many people to other countries for the last part of their language training for the reason boot just pointed out.

[BartSimpson]

Good idea. Arabic is more about the metaphors and nuances than it is about the direct translation so this is a good idea.

[GreenTiger]

THis is an excellent. We need to knoew their language to keeps tabs on al qada.