Time To Get Serious About Language Learning?

[flan327]

Considering how many schools issue computer notebooks/"ipads", especially after COVID shutdowns, would seem an essential skill now.

They already know
Before they go to school

 

[Unkotare]

With all these foreign native speakers flooding across our border I dont think we need more spanish or farsi speakers than we already have

Why not

 

[Stryder50]

They already know
Before they go to school

Some do, some don't.

And the key factor is how much and to what degree.

Wife and I have collectively about 13 grand-kids ranging in ages from recent H.S. grads to just starting the K-12 cycle. Yeah, they tend to be somewhat more computer savvy than we oldsters, but still, there are nuances to be learned.

Coming from someone who studied COBOL, FORTRAN, and other earliest programing languages in the age when a huge mainframe didn't have the computation power of most wrist watches today.

 

[flan327]

Why not

We have plenty of Spanish speakers living here

When I call most businesses
The phone tree gives me the option

Press ONE for English
Press TWO for Spanish

 

[HenryBHough]

Post reported

Remember how you were ridiculed when you chanted, in kindergarten, "I'm gonna tell the teaccchhhhhhherrrrrr"?
You will.
You will.

 

[Unkotare]

Post reported

Reported for what?

 

[Unkotare]

No, you are taking your extremely limited experience .....

My experience is anything but limited.

 

[westwall]

My experience is anything but limited.

Wrong, because it is limited to YOUR experience.

You are an insignificant part of the human race.

There are far more experiences out there.

 

[Unkotare]

Wrong, because it is limited to YOUR experience.

....

Which is extensive.

 

[westwall]

Which is extensive.

But still only one.

 

[Unkotare]

But still only one.

And?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

LOL!
Link?

I WAS THERE!

 

[Unkotare]

LOL!
Link?

No link? Yeah, I thought not.

 

[BrokeLoser]

Why not

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

 

[Anathema]

NO. If anything we need t stop teaching foreign languages in schools. Especially when so many kids graduate as barely capable of reading/writing ENGLISH. We also need to stop accommodating individuals who don’t speak/read/write a English. It’s not the official language of this country (it should be); but it’s the most prevalent language across the country.

 

[Mac-7]

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?

The lib public teachers are not even teaching many kids to read and wrote in English, nor do many of the students graduate

But now the groomers want more billions to teach urdu or farsi?

Get serious

 

[Unkotare]

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

AMERICANS can speak whatever language they damn well please.

 

[Unkotare]

The lib public teachers are not even teaching many kids to read and wrote [sic] in English,....

They sure seem to have missed you.

 

[Unkotare]

... If anything we need t stop teaching foreign languages in schools....

Well, we're not going to.

 

[Mac-7]

They sure seem to have missed you.

If being a spelling nazi is the best argument you have then I win hands down