World Languages
There are many excellent reasons for studying a World Language whether one enters the business world or selects to continue their education beyond high school. If one has the desire to speak, to translate, or to write a World Language and to enhance ones cultural background, then one is encouraged to visit with a World Language teacher and enroll in a course of interest.
Click a country to view more information France - After the Revolution (1789) the government adopted a new calendar based on 10 equal months named for the seasons and weather. It's true, and it's also true that this year's April Fool's Day on Revoltionary Calendar would be: 11 Germinal CCXIII.
- In France, it's illegal to name, or even address, any pig as Napoleon.
- A dwarf named Richeborg, was raised as a servant of the Orleans family in eighteenth century France and who stood 23 inches high at maturity, was employed by the aristocracy as a secret agent during the French Revolution. Disguised as an infant and wrapped in swaddling clothes, Richeborg was taken in and out of Paris in the arms of his "nurse," all the while carrying crucial secret dispatches. Richeborg died in Paris at slightly less than a hundred years of age.
Spain - Spain is situated on the Iberian Peninsula, which it shares with Portugal.
- The Spanish spoken in Spain is often referred to as Castillian, or castellano.
- Spanish is the official language of more than 20 countries on 3 different continents.
- Many words in Spanish are Arabic in origin due to the Moorish occupation of Spain for more than 700 years.
- Spanish is a Romance language- similar in structure to Italian, Portuguese and French.
Germany - Do you know the name of Davenport's sister-city in Germany?(It is Kaiserslautern.)
- Every other year we have a great 3-week exchange with a school in Kaiserslautern.
- Many Davenport residents can trace their ancestry to Germany, and often to the state of Schleswig-Holstein. That happens to be Iowa's sister-state.
- German is the most widely-spoken language in Europe.
- Here are some German words you already know, or can guess: Kindergarten, Gesundheit, Arm, Hand, Finger, Bank, Radio, Kassette, Fußball, Auto, Film, Sommer, Winter ... want to learn more?
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