Time To Get Serious About Language Learning?

[Unkotare]

Why would you hope to encourage more division, more dividing factors among the people?

I wouldn't.

 

[Unkotare]

“Newcomers”?
Do you mean illegal trespassers?

No, I mean newcomers.

 

[BrokeLoser]

No, I mean newcomers.

Can you explain what “newcomers” are in detail?

 

[Unkotare]

Can you explain what “newcomers” are in detail?

People who have newly come to the district.

 

[Mac-7]

Just a coincidence that your "typo" altered the verb's morphology in such a specific way?

Stop chewing on my ankle

 

[Mac-7]

That I would ace easily. In addition to English, I have taught history for decades.

Unkotare may know the dates of historical events but his leftwing anti American slant on those events is bad news for the students

For instance, lets hear his version of the defeat of Japan and the subsequent Korean War

 

[Unkotare]

Unkotare may know the dates of historical events but his leftwing anti American slant .....

WRONG, Liar.

 

[BrokeLoser]

WRONG, Liar.

He’s spot on and you know it globalist.

 

[Unkotare]

He’s spot on and you know it globalist.

I know that you and he are LIARS.

 

[Unkotare]

Foreign language instruction in the US starts late and is not emphasized as much as many other subjects. Should we as a nation (more accurately, as many local school districts) change this emphasis? Every year, more and more jobs in the US are advertised as requiring at least bilingualism, and more of the higher paying jobs involve working and communicating with people in and from all over the world. Employment aside, there are many well-established social and cognitive benefits from learning other languages than one's first. Should we require a much higher standard of proficiency and/or acquisition of two or more languages as part of graduation requirements from high school?

Eventually, we may have no choice.

 

[Unkotare]

Unkotare may know the dates of historical events but his leftwing anti American [sic] slant on those events...

No such slant.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Foreign language instruction in the US starts late and is not emphasized as much as many other subjects. Should we as a nation (more accurately, as many local school districts) change this emphasis? Every year, more and more jobs in the US are advertised as requiring at least bilingualism, and more of the higher paying jobs involve working and communicating with people in and from all over the world. Employment aside, there are many well-established social and cognitive benefits from learning other languages than one's first. Should we require a much higher standard of proficiency and/or acquisition of two or more languages as part of graduation requirements from high school?

I like your thinking, I really do. I was stationed in Germany and live in Texas, and I have made a lot of effort to learn those German and Spanish. I would be better at them, if I had taken classes in those languages

But . . . English is the language of success, not just in North America, but all over the world. The current standard in Texas is two years of a LOTE (language other than English) and even that requirement is often waived for students with disabilities. That seems about right. Trying to force them to be proficient or to take two languages would be discouraging for enough of them to increase the dropout rate, and the rest would see little value in it.

I might be more inclined to agree with you if our math, science, and reading scores were not so low compared to Europe and Asia's students.

 

[Unkotare]

... if our math, science, and reading scores were not so low compared to Europe and Asia's students.

Compare apples to apples and they wouldn't be.

 

[Seymour Flops]

Compare apples to apples and they wouldn't be.

That's interesting.

How so?

 

[Unkotare]

That's interesting.

How so?

In many European and Asian countries only the top performers stay in school long enough to be tested/compared, and often just the top % of those. Here we try to educate everyone equally, and students are tested equally.

 

[BrokeLoser]

Eventually, we may have no choice.

English is the official language of the United States. Unless one lives in a disgusting foreigner infiltrated shithole like Boston, Loon York or Lost Angeles and seeks shitty employment in social services, education or at a carniceria where one would deal with filthy foreigners all day bilingualism is worthless…Leave those disgusting jobs to the desperate purple hair childless cat ladies.
Look, this nation is being cleaned up, we are eradicating tens of millions of foreigners who don’t speak our language and never should have been here. The days of forcing Americans to accommodate the worlds filth are gone.
Isn’t this shit AWESOME!

 

[Seymour Flops]

In many European and Asian countries only the top performers stay in school long enough to be tested/compared, and often just the top % of those. Here we try to educate everyone equally, and students are tested equally.

Ah.

Yes, there is a lot of truth in that.

 

[Unkotare]

Full List of Biotech Companies in Boston, Massachusetts (2025)

There are as many as 1000 biotech companies in Boston and Cambridge, part of the Greater Boston Area. The Kendall Square area of Cambridge, also labelled the

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[Unkotare]

https://www.bostonplans.org/getattachment/142fdff6-99d8-4df6-983d-0b43ae492345

 

[Unkotare]

History museums in Boston: All 35 museums to visit (January 2026) - WhichMuseum

View a list of all history museums in Boston (Massachusetts) for you to visit.

whichmuseum.com