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I learned cursive in 3rd grade in the US, but I didn't use it since except for the specific letters of my own signature (which no longer really resembles the or

I learned cursive in 3rd grade in the US, but I didn't use it since except for the specific letters of my own signature (which no longer really resembles the original letters anyway), so I've largely unlearned it. In hindsight, it was a huge waste of time. They should just teach enough to write your own name and then spend the rest of the year on reading, math, or typing. You could say the same for Spanish. They teach it K-12 in a lot of districts but somehow the students never become fluent and rapidly lose any skills they gain.

ghaff 4y ago
Some people are doubtless more gifted in picking up languages. But my experience getting pretty good grades in 4 years of high school French is this: Traveling in France with a friend who never had any French, I actually could read and somewhat speak a fair bit she couldn't. But I was nowhere remotely near fluent/competent. In general, studying a language and never being immersed mostly leads to pretty surface knowledge.