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Languages Students Learn In The United States

Which languages would you like to learn?


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Languages Students Learn In The United States​



 
Or which languages would you like your children to learn?
 
Or which languages would you like your children to learn?
I learned how to speak American and that's it. Idk what all these other "languages" are I've never heard of any of them.
 
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I knew some Italian... (parents and grandparents)... And in HS and college I took 4 years of French...

I was never fluent in either... But I could understand some..

Now? I'm 70 years old.. I can barely follow English... Lol
 
Now 2 of 2 say: Spanish
 
I knew some Italian... (parents and grandparents)... And in HS and college I took 4 years of French...
My mother language is Alemannic.
My first "foreign language" was standard German
 
Iirc u said you're German
. Born in Germany? Where did you pick up English?
Yes - born in Germany.
In the Black Forest, where the Alemannic dialect is spoken - more like Swiss German.

My English I picked up in England and in Scotland.
 
1. Everyone should learn Spanish.

a. I can speak a little Spanish.
b. I can read Spanish a little better.
c. I cannot understand Spanish unless the speaker uses standard Spanish (no idioms, please) and speaks very slowly.

2. I cannot speak or understand spoken (Mandarin) Chinese.
a. I can read simple Chinese with a dictionary at my side.
b. I can write Chinese and probably get my ideas across, but the reader will laugh and laugh at my mistakes!!!
 
I'm no expert... But I think it's safe to say English is now the universal language..

Between the British bivwacking all over the world for 400 years, or whatever...

And American business, music, movies, entertainment, all in English...

I think it's safe to say English is pretty popular... Lol
 
Generally none, not even English.
Forty-some years ago my answer would have been more optimistic.
 
Yes - born in Germany.
In the Black Forest, where the Alemannic dialect is spoken - more like Swiss German.

My English I picked up in England and in Scotland.

Agggghhhh, you speak Sweiss-Deutsch? HAHAHAH!!!
 
you speak Sweiss-Deutsch?
No, I don't.
I can understand it well, but I dont speak it.

I take pride to say I speak the Black Forest variation of Alemannic.
Much like it is still spoken across the Rhine from here in Alsace - called Elsässerditsch there,

In Switzerland they speak Swiss Alemannic.
But they call it Schweizerdeutsch or Schwizzerditsch.

And in Vorarlberg they speak Austrian Alemannic.
 
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So they say.
In college my French language teacher was fluent in English, French, German, Spanish and Hebrew..

He flat out said the worse was English.. Terrible language to learn.. Much of English makes no sense..
 
He flat out said the worse was English.. Terrible language to learn.. Much of English makes no sense..
Here I must defend English.
It is a wonderful and beautiful language - if it is spoken in a fine way.
And it does make a lot of sense.
And it is witty in the best sense of the word.
 
Iirc u said you're German
. Born in Germany?
Yes.
And may I introduce my mother language - spoken in 6 European countries:
Germany, France, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Northern Italy.



 
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