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I would just like to point out that students in the US do not actually learn languages in school. The "1-2 years" is hardly sufficient and US students do not gr
by dreamdu5t 11y ago
I would just like to point out that students in the US do not actually learn languages in school. The "1-2 years" is hardly sufficient and US students do not graduate with the ability to read/write/speak another language besides English, as kids in countries like Taiwan, Netherlands, etc. do
- nacs 11y agoI never suggested 1-2 years was sufficient or effective. In fact, the 2 years of the required Spanish I was taught was quickly forgotten by the time I graduated. At least by learning programming, students can learn concepts and ways of thinking about problems that they can reuse later in life.
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- cellularmitosis 11y agoI was arguing with a friend about this long ago. He won the argument by simply asking me to translate the word "rectangle" into Spanish. It really opened my eyes to just how inadequate my foreign language education had been.