Another story explaining how hard it is to function without knowing the language. And how hard it is to learn, and how there are teachers who are helping them learn. DP
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By Kristi Haunfelder, staff writer
Lake Country Reporter: Imagine this was hand written on a chalkboard. Imagine any spoken language around you sounds like a garbled mess.
Walk into the foreign language section of a bookstore or library and look at a language like Chinese or Russian that doesn't even use a familiar alphabet, and you might get an idea of what it's like to attend school and try to learn without speaking the language.
"I went to the Spanish section and picked up a magazine," said Linda Catterson, a teacher who works with English language learners at the Kettle Moraine School District. It helped Catterson imagine what her students must be thinking and feeling.
This year, her first with Kettle Moraine, Catterson has 26 students on a regular basis, not a large number in a district with more than 4,300 students, but the Lake Country has been seeing more English language learners during the last few years.
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