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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?

HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

to be done right it has to be done early. This means parents or schools have to choose the languages learned. It needs to be immersive to. Schools will have to have teachers for every language. That can be expensive. Its a bit easier with non english speaking countries as they generally teach english and like catholic schools at one time taught latin. Now personally I would love the whole world to standardize on one sign language and teach that so that in a generation or two everyone would be able to communicate.

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captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
That would be good, and in line with Plains Sign Language’s legacy. It was created as a trade language and adopted by the deaf. That said, sign languages are living languages and without much mass communication in them they drift pretty hard and fast. All said Plains would be a really cool choice, but French Sign Language (LSF) would probably be the most practical choice.

So yeah, if everyone could agree on a sign language to learn, my deaf ass is in.

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- HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  well us adults would likely never really see the benefit but as I said in a generation or two it would be huge.
  
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