Language
The in-depth foreign language program at West Ottawa includes frequent opportunities for foreign travel, such as a trip to Peru and Costa Rica for students enrolled in Spanish language classes, Paris for those enrolled in French Language classes, and Germany for students enrolled in German Language classes. West Ottawa offers advanced placement Spanish.
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Famous quotes containing the word language:
“We have tried so hard to adulterate our hearts, and have so greatly abused the microscope to study the hideous excrescences and shameful warts which cover them and which we take pleasure in magnifying, that it is impossible for us to speak the language of other men.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“A mind enclosed in language is in prison.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“When a language creates—as it does—a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.”
—Christopher Ricks (b. 1933)