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Originally Posted by Javier
Really?? I just thought of it because that unfortunately is a common american thinking, and just thought that if he really wanted to he would have learned by now.
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It's a common American condition, not necessarily thinking...though of course we do have our idiots with that attitude. Other language classes aren't taught in our schools until High School in most districts and even then those classes are usually little more than introductory. To learn another language in school, it needs to start in elementary school and be taught over the years, advancing. Learning and maintaining a language requires daily use and we really don't get that opportunity usually. We can take German in High School, but with no real way to use it in daily life it's pretty futile. I knew Sign Language to a fair degree, but since I don't actually use it to communicate myself, I'm very rusty with it. When I did learn it I was immersed in it for a year or two at a time (differing times in my life.)
I'd love to be fluent in Spanish and I do listen to Spanish Rock sometimes.