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Encouraging students to take coding classes is great, but maybe not at the expense of expanding horizons and knowledge of other cultures around the world. Learn
by guard0g 5y ago
Encouraging students to take coding classes is great, but maybe not at the expense of expanding horizons and knowledge of other cultures around the world. Learning a foreign language conveys many benefits beyond just the language itself.
- emteycz 5y agoThat's a very native English speaker-centric point of view... Here in Europe we learn English to be able to function in the world, nothing much else. Not many people are interested in any other languages, and Russian was dropped as soon as it got out of importance.
- Grustaf 5y agoSounds like you are in Eastern Europe (from the Russian comment). In Scandinavia we all learn English from and early age, but everyone then also takes a second foreign language, usually German, French or Spanish (all incredibly useful if you live in Europe), but some schools also have more exotic alternatives.
- MisterSandman 5y agoSame in India, most students take 3 languages in their school career - English, a native regional language (typically Hindi), and a third language, which can range from Japanese to Sanskrit (i.e. Latin but Indic)
- Mediterraneo10 5y agoEastern European here. Nearly every university-educated person I know has at least interest in Spanish, and often already some solid knowledge of the language from e.g. telenovelas or doing Erasmus in Spain.
- emteycz 5y agoWhere are you from exactly? Here in Czechia compulsory third language started only in 2017 (plus minus), and the education is not really great - many people have serious problems with English, and adding the third language didn't really help them with that either.
- CincinnatiMan 5y agoI don’t know, I generally consider my 3 years of Latin as a waste of time.
- MisterSandman 5y agoTo be fair, Latin shouldn't really count as a "foreign" language since it has essentially no native speakers :upsidedown: