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?

• Waldelfe@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  English starts in 3rd grade here and a second language like French or Spanish usually in 5th grade. Starting to learn foreign languages in high school is wild.

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• bufalo1973@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  In Spain there are places where two languages are taught at once since the first minute.  There are two official languages. And a third one is taught soon after that.

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  • neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Basque, I’m guessing?

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    • bufalo1973@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Or Catalan or Galician. And near Portugal, Portuguese.

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• percent@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I think this is one of the reasons why people from English-speaking countries are less motivated to learn other languages; English is almost everywhere, to varying degrees.

  It’s sort of a gift and a curse. I enjoy learning languages, but there’s no practical need for me to, so I’m bad at it 🙈

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• grranibal@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  In Portugal, mandatory English classes start on the 5th grade, but from 1st grade kids have the option to take English classes as an extracurricular

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