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I grew up in one of these households. My grandmother didn’t speak English so my dad mandated Hindi be spoken in the household. I think it was a net positive in
by dopeboy 3y ago
I grew up in one of these households. My grandmother didn’t speak English so my dad mandated Hindi be spoken in the household.
I think it was a net positive in my life. I pick up phrases and sounds from new languages pretty easily. I didn’t do great in my English classes in HS but am a pretty good writer now.
From an assimilation pov, I think it’s pretty important to grow up speaking whatever language you do alongside English. I don’t have the data but I know ESL kids have a hard time in early schooling here in California.
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- kyleamazza 3y agoDo you eat tacos, sushi, omelettes, or fettuccine? Do you practice kanban, yoga, zen? Where do you think these words come from?
- angrais 3y agoI'm not OP, but the answer is obviously both. Multilingual helps brain develop in new ways, and better personal development helps all nations.
- lostmsu 3y ago> Multilingual helps brain develop in new ways I've never seen conclusive evidence to this.
- pfannkuchen 3y agoFrom an evolutionary perspective it makes no sense either. Multilingualism would happen sometimes, but it was only when your tribe was conquered by a neighbor. Other multi lingual scenarios are very recent. If there are any evolutionarily rooted features around this, it would be related to the former. Though, there could still be some coincidental benefit, it just seems as unlikely as any other totally coincidental benefit.
- jwells89 3y agoI sometimes wish my childhood environment were conducive to holding onto a second language. I took Spanish in high school but because there was nobody around to speak it with I lost it entirely. I’m now working on acquiring a second language I might actually get some usage out of, but nothing can parallel learning secondary languages early on.
- financltravsty 3y agoThe wellness of the nation can be taken into consideration once that nation takes the wellness of its people into consideration.
- jszymborski 3y agoEveryone.
- JCharante 3y agoin the most negative view, your nation having speakers of foreign languages is good for having a healthy population of potential spies that you can send out to foreign nations.
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- Ar-Curunir 3y agoEnglish is a foreign language to the Americas; would you say that it’s a net bad to have it be spoken here (and be an official language of the country?)
- unethical_ban 3y agoI chuckle every time someone uses the "everyone in America is a foreigner" angle as if it helps their position on supporting mass immigration. Mass immigration didn't work out for the Native Americans. Why use that as a model to replicate?
- D13Fd 3y agoBoth, easily. I wish I could give my kids that advantage.
- alexlur 3y agoWorked for Switzerland.