It's embarrassing and kind of pathetic that most people from the U.S. can only speak one language. The U.S. education system sucks and foreign language learning should be mandatory for everyone.

sorahvxvxv@lemmy.world · edit-2 7 months ago

It's embarrassing and kind of pathetic that most people from the U.S. can only speak one language. The U.S. education system sucks and foreign language learning should be mandatory for everyone.

actionjbone@sh.itjust.works · 7 months ago

Yeah, but it’s rote memorization. It’s not immersive usage. So almost no American students retain anything from those years of study.

Uranium3006@kbin.social · 7 months ago

Language education evolved from Greek and Latin lessons designed to get you I to college which required them because in the rennesance reading classical texts was important and the ability to was essential and it persisted for hundreds of years. Because of this speaking wasn’t a part if the pedagogy and is kinda tacked on in modern language ed