Express Fluency- a new language school offering Spanish classes in Brattleboro and Putney– is offering free intro classes over the coming weeks.
The way that they teach language is so radically different from the way most of us were taught language in school that you have to experience one of these classes for yourself to see what it feels like to pick-up a language easily.
The upcoming free classes include:
Thursday, April 24th 6pm-7pm Putney Public Library
Wednesday, April 30th 12pm-1pm. River Garden, Brattleboro (Strolling of the Heifer’s Brown Bag Lunch series)
Thursday, May 29th 12pm-1pm. River Garden, Brattleboro (Strolling of the Heifer’s Brown Bag Lunch series)
For more information, please visit www.ExpressFluency.com, email elissa@expressfluency.com, or call 802-275-2694.
By 2050 Hispanic's will reach 30% of our population
The younger you are, the more important it is for you to learn Spanish. Failure to do so might limit your prospects and help maintain a social divide that needs to be bridged.
In the school systems of the 50’s and 60’s they didn’t teach language until the tenth grade when it was required. By then it was usually too late. For the majority of 15 year old students it was wasted curriculum.
Additionally, French was much encouraged because, as we were told, it‘s the language of diplomats and more useful later in life. My French teacher gave a lot of us a passing grade because she knew it was a losing proposition.
Spanish was not much encouraged. What a shame that was.
Spanish may not seem to be a very useful language here in Vermont. Considering that we have 52 million Hispanics now, most live in the Southwest and West, the highest populations in California, Texas and New Mexico.
Nevertheless, learning Spanish as a working second language needs to stay pace with reality. By 2050 the projected Hispanic population in the United States will reach 133 million or 30% of our total population.
I’m sorry to see that, while these first classes are free, the planned class schedules costs a range of $150 to $330. In a county facing escalating costs and taxes, those prices will limited the courses ready availability.