L'Inde a décidé de mettre l'accent sur l'apprentissage des langues indiennes, et a donc mis de côté l'enseignement de l'allemand...
Western linguistic pride took another big hit last week: India discontinued the study of German in its schools, to be replaced by “Sanskrit or any other modern Indian language”. The motive for the change is quoted blandly as “the national interest” which could, I suppose, be seen as a noble aspiration, to unify a subcontinent on its own historic terms.
But it makes me sigh. For it seems that not a week goes by without another injunction that the world should stop learning French or German and do something much more useful, such as master Mandarin. The future, we are always being told, will belong to China and India. So why, the modish suggestion runs, do schools keep filling our students’ heads with useless foreign languages.
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A remarquer que l'auteur insiste sur le fait que beaucoup de gens enseignent ou apprennnet des langues dans un but utilitaire. Lui insiste sur les modifications bénéfiques que la diversité linguistique opère sur le cerveau...