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Many foreigners manage to learn English and other languages quite nicely in their schools, thankyou very much. What Tabarrok says is that foreign languages are
by HarryHirsch 8y ago
Many foreigners manage to learn English and other languages quite nicely in their schools, thankyou very much. What Tabarrok says is that foreign languages are a waste of time, not that they are taught badly.
- jeffreyrogers 8y agoNo, he literally says: > Don’t make the mistake of arguing that knowing a second language has many benefits. The point is that foreign language instruction in schools doesn’t teach a second language. I get your point that other countries manage to teach English. But English has a large amount of utility to non-English speakers. The reverse isn't true for most languages English speakers could learn. I'm decidedly not anti-foreign languages. I can understand some Norwegian and French and am learning Arabic, but it is much less useful for me to know these languages than for a speaker of them to know English.