You HAVE to in high school

Duh

Maby most of us (including me) will never need another language. If people come to the United States and speak another language should we learn there language,No we shouldn't. They should learn our language. 8)

I live in america. The highschools and middle schools dont teach shit. If you wanna learn another language then you have to pay for lessons. Lol 8)

Ive taken 4 years of another language so stop steriotyping people, my school makes us take a foriegn language anyway

kvaubel wrote

sakemodz69 wrote I respect most of your replies here but some are stupid like "why bother learning another language" well maybe because you might want to travel or leave your country and expand your tiny mind ...I have learned English since i was 5 as its taught from a young age ...and know how to read and write fluently

Hm, well if I recall on page 5 you said "English is not my native language so forgive a few mistakes i may make". If you have been learning it since you were five, why would you say this? Are you lying? And what would be your "Native language"? Hm?

I know how to read and write fluently but its not my native language so i may make a mistake sometime no one is perfect you know !

You sir, cannot talk about us when you don't know WTF is going on. My high school requires everyone to take 2 years of another language. I'm in my third year of Spanish, going to take four, which is two more than needed to graduate, so don't call us ignorant.

Espero que usted es golpeado por un autobs

XboxModdingCrew wrote Maby most of us (including me) will never need another language. If people come to the United States and speak another language should we learn there language,No we shouldn't. They should learn our language. 8)

I agree with you there of course ...but do you not agree that if some one from the USA moves to say Poland they should not learn Polish no ?

Casca wrote Your generalization is completely wrong. Every school district in the US requires some sort of foreign language. Your stereotyping is not uncommon, there are several countries out there that believe that the US only teaches English. Most of the time its either Spanish, French or German that is taught. This stems from the availability of teachers that have the knowledge to teach a specific language. Most people from Europe are fluent in several different languages because there are so many different countries so close together. Most Americans will try to learn certain phrases when they do travel to get around and survive i.e. shopping, medical, eating etc.... The problem is that most people are shy whey trying out a new language, which I'm sure you dealt with when you tried to speak English for the first few times. The truth of the matter is that English is the language of the world, like it or not. I experience it on a daily basis. Where I live you will see Arabs, Filipinos, Pakis and Indians talking together and they all speak English because that is the one common language. Now I applaud you for having the confidence to post on a forum that is not in your native tongue, but please do not use such stereotyping. Where are you from, if you dont mind me asking?


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That was really well said! I'm speechless..

This tells me your under 13 and are in middle school lol you HAVE to learn a new one in high school

sakemodz69 wrote

kvaubel wrote

sakemodz69 wrote I respect most of your replies here but some are stupid like "why bother learning another language" well maybe because you might want to travel or leave your country and expand your tiny mind ...I have learned English since i was 5 as its taught from a young age ...and know how to read and write fluently

Hm, well if I recall on page 5 you said "English is not my native language so forgive a few mistakes i may make". If you have been learning it since you were five, why would you say this? Are you lying? And what would be your "Native language"? Hm?

I know how to read and write fluently but its not my native language so i may make a mistake sometime no one is perfect you know !

Well then what is this "Native Language" if I may ask?