There's already wank from right wingers over how the senator dared to speak a ~scary foreign language~ on the sacred ground of the Senate lol.
I wish our school systems placed more emphasis on learning other languages more fluently. I took three years of Spanish and wasn't required to keep learning it, so I took ASL for two years. Here in Lake Ridge, the middle schools offer a language course in eighth grade, but it's not required.
I say this because I wish I was more fluent and could listen to his speech without struggling to remember translations.
Same. My schools actually required more language instruction than most, but I wasn't anywhere near fluent at the end. Add in the years since where I haven't been pushed to learn more or even keep up what I knew then and... yeah.
It's starting to shift in some areas though. In one district I work in, the kids are getting Spanish instruction starting in the pre-kindergarten programs. Shocked the hell out of my the first time I subbed there and my little kiddos started singing all of their morning calender time songs in both English and Spanish.
That's my one regret not being fluent in another language. On a side note I was watching travel show yesterday and they were in Bangladesh. The host visited a school that's located on a houseboat and one of their subjects was learning English. I thought there is no reason why children here can't be taught two languages.
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There's already wank from right wingers over how the senator dared to speak a ~scary foreign language~ on the sacred ground of the Senate lol.
I wish our school systems placed more emphasis on learning other languages more fluently. I took three years of Spanish and wasn't required to keep learning it, so I took ASL for two years. Here in Lake Ridge, the middle schools offer a language course in eighth grade, but it's not required.
I say this because I wish I was more fluent and could listen to his speech without struggling to remember translations.
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