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Anyone let their kids participate in a sponge room?
I have never heard of one until the other day.
Apparently it is a room where they put 2 to 4 year old kids from other cultures and languages in and there are toddlers who can speak 2 or more languages that they glean from other kids.
The guy I was talking to said his grandkid speaks Cantonese and French as well as he speaks English.
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  • dcon12
    quote:Originally posted by MVP
    The guy I was talking to said his grandkid speaks Cantonese and French as well as he speaks English.



    But why? Don
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  • MVP
    quote:Originally posted by dcon12
    quote:Originally posted by MVP
    The guy I was talking to said his grandkid speaks Cantonese and French as well as he speaks English.



    But why? Don

    Thast what I wanted to know.
    These are rich people who live on Mercer Island by Bill gates.
    Poor people like me don't understand this so I thought you could explain?
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  • jimdeere
    I've been in a padded room, but I didn't learn anything.[:D]
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  • Permanently deleted user
    quote:Originally posted by jimdeere
    I've been in a padded room, but I didn't learn anything.[:D]



    ...nothing at all???

    How soft was the padding?
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  • select-fire
    Never heard of it, but I might be up for a sponge bath..[:)]
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  • He Dog
    I think it would be a great advantage to be multilingual. I have little neck for language, but I could easily use spanish daily. I have little use for the German THEY said was going to become the language of science (English became the language of science). I would love to be able to speak Spanish, Greek, Italian, Australian and other exotic languages. Useful in international business, getting a great job as a translator, and just being more well rounded (ok I am pretty well rounded as it is, but I am starting the diet tomorrow). Different languages show you different ways of looking at the world and different ways of expressing ideas.
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  • select-fire
    Bologny.. If your around me don't start talking some foreign language .. I might think your up to something. By the tone and facial expression I believe that foreign towelhead just cussed me out .. Leave me give him an American whippin'
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  • GuvamintCheese
    You need to get in contact with Sponge Bob.
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  • spryor
    quote:Originally posted by select-fire
    Bologny.. If your around me don't start talking some foreign language .. I might think your up to something. By the tone and facial expression I believe that foreign towelhead just cussed me out .. Leave me give him an American whippin'
    Same here.
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  • sharpshooter039
    The advantage would be to the child,,I think people in business that can speak more than one language would stand a much higher rate of success,, I was raised in Louisiana and could speak a little french,,it never helped me until I tried to learn spanish and they are similar enough that it helped,,as a sales rep I increased my business thus increased my income by 30k a year just by picking up another language,,,now if I could just learn to spell and type I could get rich
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  • watrulookinat
    why should my kid have to learn spanish? He lives in the U.S.A. It would be differant if he was going to go live in columbia.
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  • Permanently deleted user
    We have sponge room at home, I am originally from Finland and speak Finnish to our daughter. My wife is an American country girl and she speaks English to her. She will learn both languages growing up, I hope. [:)]
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  • select-fire
    Well the next thing there will be religion rooms. Put your kids in the room with other kids around the world. Learn Buddapest, The Koran.. well endless possibilities. Maybe Bin Laden will show up and give a lecture.
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  • watrulookinat
    We have a sponge at home to... It's laying on the sink.
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  • He Dog
    quote:Originally posted by watrulookinat
    why should my kid have to learn spanish? He lives in the U.S.A. It would be differant if he was going to go live in columbia.


    It is not that your kid MUST learn it, it is that he has the oportunity. How can it possibly be an advantage to know less? How can it be better to live in a smaller world?
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  • watrulookinat
    Knowing spanish won't make my son a better man.
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  • He Dog
    It will make him better rounded and more employable. Perhaps less narrow minded too. You are correct, it will not make him more honest, more honorable or give him a spine. Perhaps there is more to being a man, though those things may be the most important.
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  • M44_Kid
    Very Interesting!!![:D][:D]
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  • Colt Super
    During the course of my work, I have had to learn Japanese, Korean, German and Spanish. By the time that I had not used any of them for 4 or 5 years, they were gone. After I got sick, I lost my memory and that capped it off - I remember virtually nothing about any of those languages, even when I hear them spoken. I also don't remember any details of my work.

    As time goes on, I seem to be recapturing some of my lost memories, but nothing of the languages.

    The memories that do come back, are the ones I post here from time to time.

    I know they are boring, especially to the younger among us, but when I put something ancient in writing, it tends to restore more.

    Doug
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  • watrulookinat
    There is no reason to learn spanish. It doesn not benefit me or my family in any way. Perhaps your missing the point. I am in the United States of America, we speak the english language over here. If I am going to have a conversation with someone it will be in english. And if not...well we just won't have one. We do not need the spanish language to excel in life in the united states. And there IS more to becoming a man. And learning the spanish language isn't one of them. Just because one has no desire to learn the spanish language, does not make them narrow minded.
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  • sharpshooter039
    quote:We do not need the spanish language to excel in life in the united states.

    You need to wake up in the real world,,even before the invasion there was a need to speak more than one language,,,now if you want your children to EXCEL they better be able to speak more than just english,,,,you can not even drive a truck cross country and not run into problems in places like south florida or the west coast being on a loading dock where no one speaks english,,I was in Arlington Tx,this week,,went into a Popeyes chicken,,,not one employee in the building spoke english,,Pick up the paper or go to Monster.com and see how many higher paying jobs you can go after if you speak both english and spanish,,,,,sticking your head in the sand will only put your children at a very big disadvantage

    quote:If I am going to have a conversation with someone it will be in english. And if not...well we just won't have one.
    In many cases that statement will also mean you will not have a job,,,or at very least not the higher paying job
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  • thunderbolt
    When the world speaks English, there will be no need for other languages.
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  • watrulookinat
    I'm in industrial sale's and I do just fine. Don't need no stinkin spanish here. When a spanish speaking customer call's or come's in. They need to speak english. And I also live in South Florida, and We do just fine. It's people like you that are so excepting of this and cater to them. That's what hurts our country. Your not part of the solution, you just part of the problem. Some things aren't ment to be changed. My son will have a good education without spanish. Only I will have to pay for it unlike some people. My son will excel just fine without it. Sounds like I need to grab the flag and head for the hills.
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  • He Dog
    quote:Some things aren't ment to be changed.

    And who in gods name appointed you the arbiter of fossilization?
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  • watrulookinat
    Dog. LOL, Is that all you could come up with? I tell you what...why don't you sit back in your lazy boy chair and kick off your shoes and go turn on your tv and put on your favorate spanish channel and enjoy the rest of your night.
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  • MVP
    I was at the Yakima (little mexico of the North West) McDonalds the other day and I was the only english speaking white person in there. And it was packed, no tables left packed.
    All the employees were hispanic and all the patrons were hispanic and being that I don't speak spanish I sure was glad Mcdonalds has a number menue. I could have got by with just holding up 3 fingers and got the right order[:D]
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  • spryor
    quote:Originally posted by watrulookinat
    We have a sponge at home to... It's laying on the sink.
    And we all know by now that sponges only harbor much bacteria and fungus.
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  • Kodiakk
    quote:Originally posted by watrulookinat
    There is no reason to learn spanish. It doesn not benefit me or my family in any way. Perhaps your missing the point. I am in the United States of America, we speak the english language over here. If I am going to have a conversation with someone it will be in english. And if not...well we just won't have one. We do not need the spanish language to excel in life in the united states. And there IS more to becoming a man. And learning the spanish language isn't one of them. Just because one has no desire to learn the spanish language, does not make them narrow minded.


    Let me say first and foremost I beleive to live in America you should be required to learn english as it's the language here.

    What does learning different languages have anything to do with becoming a man? You logic is way off. If you cannot see the benifits to knowing multiple languages then you have some screws lose.

    There are alot of business men that go to other countries to do business. Knowing that language gives them a big advantage.

    My wifes family is from Mexico and I encourage my kids to learn spanish. Partly for the cultural value of where they came from and mostly due to it helping them with jobs as the grow older. Hell I wish my family still spoke German and would of taught me it, but it was lost due to WW2 and my family not wanting to be pin pointed.
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