- Jan 9, 2001
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It seems as though most European and Asian countries teach their children multiple languages in school right from the get-go, so they're fluent in a number of languages from around the world by the time they even get to high school. I'm not sure why we don't do this here in the U.S. Foreign language isn't even offered until high school (I had to take a special outside-of-school course to take Spanish I in 8th grade) when it's obviously a lot harder to learn. Languages are much easier learned by small children.
I'm not fluent in any language besides English, I took a few years of Spanish, but y'know, that only does so much. I really would like to be, but it seems the only way for older folks to do it is to literally be immersed in it for awhile (that's what my sister did, worked perfectly) and I can't really afford to do that.
Anyway, just random thoughts. I think we should be teaching multiple languages from grade 1, but that's just my opinion.
I'm not fluent in any language besides English, I took a few years of Spanish, but y'know, that only does so much. I really would like to be, but it seems the only way for older folks to do it is to literally be immersed in it for awhile (that's what my sister did, worked perfectly) and I can't really afford to do that.
Anyway, just random thoughts. I think we should be teaching multiple languages from grade 1, but that's just my opinion.