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There are reasons language is taught by parents, schools and higher institutions. Communication is important. Some students learn all the details of a language without becoming fluent. They may recognize the names of arcane verb constructs but if they can’t hold a conversation in the language, they have to some degree failed the course even if they aced the…..
I live in Chicago, which always has been a multilingual place. The first non-native settler was a black French-speaker named Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, who established a farm at the mouth of the Chicago river in 1780. His being black was unusual, but his speaking French in the area was not: French had been spoken, along with a number of Indian languages, in the area starting with the colonizing adventures of Père Louis Joliet and Père Jacques Marquette…..
