Registration comes around and students sign up for Spanish or French just because they know that many colleges require two years of the same foreign language. For some students it truly is a path they choose to understand the culture of other countries while others just randomly selected a class for credits. According to Spanish teacher Anelise Mossinghoff, learning new languages provides more value than just meeting requirements for universities.

“With the Internet, everything is so instant,” Mossinghoff said. “We are a global society and I definitely think it’s really an important thing to have. So definitely anytime we can encourage that, it’s great.”

While Mandarin Chinese will be stealing some of the incoming students for the first year classes, Mossinghoff believes that this is alright as they will be taking some sort of language class. Nathan Sermersheim, a former Spanish student, believes that learning any language is beneficial for any student.

“Languages are important because it gives kids the ability to learn more about other cultures and learning the other  language could be useful for studying abroad,” Sermersheim said.

Currently, only the first year of the class is available, this doesn’t drop the hopes of other kids who want to grow in the language along teachers who want to watch these students expand their knowledge. Mossinghoff believes that you cannot go on to do much with a single year of a language. She wishes for the class to continue beyond its current state and see the success of the class as a whole.

“The first year is really just a basic ‘kind of set the tone foundation’ year and it takes a few years,” Mossinghoff said. “The first step you are putting in those building blocks. We will do the kids a disservice if we stop it right now. Because the kids who started it, what are they going to do? They need to have more if they truly want to be able to use the language.”