Comment on How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand?

• SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We do, but like anything else you learn the basics and a few classes won’t make you fluent. You need immersion to get good and if you don’t use it you lose it.

  The people that use it are already in a multi language home and took the class because it’s super easy. Just about everyone else won’t use it at all outside of the classroom so everything they learn fades quickly

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