{"id":10127,"date":"2014-12-03T12:37:53","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T17:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/?p=10127"},"modified":"2014-12-05T12:03:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T17:03:32","slug":"wide-variety-of-languages-at-phs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/?p=10127","title":{"rendered":"Wide Variety of Languages at PHS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As\u00a0 an ELL teacher, Mrs. Ippel helps explain to students topics that they don’t quite understand, on Tuesday of this week. Photo by: Elia Figueroa<\/p><\/div>\n

By: Elia Figueroa<\/p>\n

To graduate from Plymouth High School, a foreign language credit is required. However, English class could be considered a foreign language to those who did not grow up speaking the language. Students of all languages think about foreign languages in different ways.<\/p>\n

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Having foreign languages has allowed high school students to learn a different language and to experience different cultures.\u00a0\u201cI think it is great to have other languages in our school. It brings more culture,\u201d says sophomore Felicia Dixon who is taking Chinese and Spanish. Freshmen Wilfredo Ascencio just moved here to Plymouth says, \u201cIt\u2019s really difficult because I was not used to being around people that spoke a different language.\u201d Both students express their feelings about a foreign language and share the experience of trying something new.<\/p>\n

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Mrs. Wendt was teaching her Spanish class, on Tuesday morning. Photo by Maria Ortiz.\u00a0think it is great to have other languages in our school. It brings more culture,\u201d says sophomore Felicia Dixon who is taking Chinese and Spanish. Freshman Wilfredo Ascencio just moved to Plymouth says, \u201cIt\u2019s really difficult because I was not used to being around people that spoke a different language.\u201d Both students express their feelings about a foreign language and share the experience of trying something new.<\/p><\/div>\n

It takes effort and dedication to learn another language, but for some people it wasn\u2019t difficult at all. Freshman Vanessa Baca stated, \u201cI think for me it was easy to adapt into new languages because I really did pay attention.\u201d Listening is a key concept in foreign language classes. One has to have self control in order to do well and succeed. Students must pay attention and dedicate time outside of class to get a good grade.<\/p>\n

Learning any new language and coming to a totally new country can be a very difficult obstacle to overcome, but very rewarding at the end because students get to communicate with other people. The struggle for years to learn to master English and being able to go to PHS has taught students to communicate and be fluent in another language.<\/p>\n

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