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Comment on Why don;t most of us Americans only need like one foreign language to pass high school? Why not make it mandatory for like 3 or 4 languages?Would that not give us the upper hand when traveling?

stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Unless you keep using the language, you will loose it, I am bilingual Swedish/English, and since I practice both constantly, I retain my skills.

I did take Spanish as well for a few few years, but have mostly forgotten it.

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rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Tried using my school Spanish once on holiday. Difference between German school Spanish and Spain Spanish is way too big, it’s like even in Madrid they’re using completely different pronounciation rules.

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- Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  To be fair, no school is going to adequately prepare you for what the local population speaks. Youre only ever going to learn “proper” conversation, but you need to be run through the actual speakers to learn tone, dialect, and slang.
  
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  - rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I couldn’t even follow the news, though. My school fucked up completely.
    
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