Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 3 days agoWhy 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?message-squaremessage-square82fedilinkarrow-up155arrow-down122file-text
arrow-up133arrow-down1message-squareWhy 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?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square82fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarebbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoTo 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.
minus-squarerumschlumpel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-23 days agoI couldn’t even follow the news, though. English was nowhere near as bad.
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.
I couldn’t even follow the news, though. English was nowhere near as bad.