{"id":676,"date":"2014-03-11T18:28:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T17:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/?p=676"},"modified":"2014-03-11T18:28:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T17:28:57","slug":"johnson-what-is-a-foreign-language-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/?p=676","title":{"rendered":"Johnson: What is a foreign language worth?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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JOHNSON is a fan of the Freakonomics books and columns. But this week\u2019s <\/span>podcast<\/a> makes me wonder if the team of Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt aren\u2019t overstretching themselves a bit. \u201cIs learning a foreign language really worth it?\u201d, asks the headline. A reader writes:<\/span><\/p>\n

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My oldest daughter is a college freshman, and not only have I paid for her to study Spanish for the last four or more years \u2014 they even do it in grade school now! \u2014 but her college is requiring her to study EVEN MORE! What on earth is going on? How did it ever get this far? \u2026 Or to put it in economics terms, where is the ROI?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

To sum up the podcast\u2019s answers, there are pros and cons to language-learning. The pros are that working in a foreign language can make people make better decisions (research Johnson covered here<\/a>) and that bilingualism helps with executive function in…Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n

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JOHNSON is a fan of the Freakonomics books and columns. But this week\u2019s podcast makes me wonder if the team of Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt aren\u2019t overstretching themselves a bit. \u201cIs learning a foreign language really worth it?\u201d, asks the headline. A reader writes: My oldest daughter is a college freshman, and not only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[84],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t