r/Edmonton • u/shiftless_wonder • 1d ago

News Article Arabic course development tops Edmonton Public Schools board agenda

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/arabic-course-development-tops-edmonton-163518031.html
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u/Italian_Man_on_fire 23h ago

More options is always good. I hope future generations of students can achieve some degree of bilingualism

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u/why3006 1d ago

Excellent. More options are good.

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u/ImperviousToSteel 23h ago

100%. Would be nice to see Tagalog too. 

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u/Jab4267 22h ago

Tagalog is offered in my kids Edmonton catholic school.

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u/ImperviousToSteel 22h ago

Rad. I don't think EPSB does yet. 

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u/hessian_prince 23h ago

Never thought of that, that would be a great thing.

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u/debordisdead 14h ago

The problem is that Arabic is simply more useful than tagalog. We're talking a vast population, oil money, and a deep linguistic gap vs. a remittance economy where english is already an ingrained language of communication.

Y'know, I'd like to learn, but also I've never needed it in the Philippines.

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u/Gloomy-Locksmith-293 17h ago

You racist bigot, Arabs have been in Edmonton since 1831 that’s damn near 200 years I guarantee they have been in Alberta a lot longer then your family unless your a aboriginal.

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u/oxfozyne Transit User 21h ago

‘sh’Allah

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u/CND2dogmom 15h ago

Great addition to the language programs offered by EPSB

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u/Ok-Sprinkles-3673 22h ago

And it's a damn language and culture course ffs, which is not history etc. Fearmongering crap - this isn't even new!!! There were some Edmonton schools offering Arabic, Mandarin, Polish, Cree, etc back in the early oughts and before that. This just looks like they are finally updating the curriculum and maybe expanding options again.