Obama complained to Argentina that Americans are clueless with poor foreign language skills

[Unkotare]

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Someone going to Spain. France or Italy should learn a few words as a courtesy to the people of those countries.

Only those?

 

[Unkotare]

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Making Latin a required language today would serve many purposes..........

Not as much as people make out.

 

[LeftofLeft]

That is not true in most cases.

What school system requires the learning of a language other than English as a requirement for graduation? There are none in the United States that I know of, and if there are, it's a rarity.

When I went to school (graduated in 1982), taking another language was an elective not a requirement.

If you know of a place where a second language is a requirement for graduation, please post a link. I've never heard of such a rule from ANY school district here in America.

When I went to school taking foreign language classes were a requirement.

The small high school I attended in Wisconsin had to get a retired teacher to return to teaching since she was the only one in town that had taught a foreign language. The reason was the state colleges passed a requirement that at least one year of a foreign language was required for admission.

The only language she taught was Latin, and I found it very helpful when I later took Spanish since Latin is the basis of several of the romance languages.

Making Latin a required language today would serve many purposes.....basis for Spanish, French, Italian. Yet, some asshole would find a problem with this as being racist.

Someone going to Spain. France or Italy should learn a few words as a courtesy to the people of those countries.

Can you imagine if someone ever proposed learingin

...

Making Latin a required language today would serve many purposes..........

Not as much as people make out.

As a basis for three languages? What other language provides that?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Americans don't travel to other countries so there is no reason to learn another language. If anyone comes here they should learn English.

In other countries, English is the language of business, finance, and the sole language of aviation worldwide.

No one has explained to me the importance of speaking to the housekeeper or gardner in Spanish.

I'm not a doctor/lawyer/dog washer but I've had occasion to speak to maids and housekeepers in French and Spanish.

You may have as well but you're the sort who would put on a show of being too good to speak to the health.

Ugly Americans make me ashamed.


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[Muhammed]

... Here in America, another language is an elective, not a requirement. ....

That is not true in most cases.

What school system requires the learning of a language other than English as a requirement for graduation? There are none in the United States that I know of, and if there are, it's a rarity.

When I went to school (graduated in 1982), taking another language was an elective not a requirement.

If you know of a place where a second language is a requirement for graduation, please post a link. I've never heard of such a rule from ANY school district here in America.

When I went to school taking foreign language classes were a requirement.

The small high school I attended in Wisconsin had to get a retired teacher to return to teaching since she was the only one in town that had taught a foreign language. The reason was the state colleges passed a requirement that at least one year of a foreign language was required for admission.

The only language she taught was Latin, and I found it very helpful when I later took Spanish since Latin is the basis of several of the romance languages.

I took 4 years of Latin in high school. But there wasn't enough students who took Latin 3 or 4 to justify the budget in a regular class. The teacher did it on her own time. She was a great teacher.

 

[Unkotare]

What school system requires the learning of a language other than English as a requirement for graduation? There are none in the United States that I know of, and if there are, it's a rarity.

When I went to school (graduated in 1982), taking another language was an elective not a requirement.

If you know of a place where a second language is a requirement for graduation, please post a link. I've never heard of such a rule from ANY school district here in America.

When I went to school taking foreign language classes were a requirement.

The small high school I attended in Wisconsin had to get a retired teacher to return to teaching since she was the only one in town that had taught a foreign language. The reason was the state colleges passed a requirement that at least one year of a foreign language was required for admission.

The only language she taught was Latin, and I found it very helpful when I later took Spanish since Latin is the basis of several of the romance languages.

Making Latin a required language today would serve many purposes.....basis for Spanish, French, Italian. Yet, some asshole would find a problem with this as being racist.

Someone going to Spain. France or Italy should learn a few words as a courtesy to the people of those countries.

Can you imagine if someone ever proposed learingin

...

Making Latin a required language today would serve many purposes..........

Not as much as people make out.

As a basis for three languages? What other language provides that?

The correlation is not direct.

 

[LeftofLeft]

When I went to school taking foreign language classes were a requirement.

The small high school I attended in Wisconsin had to get a retired teacher to return to teaching since she was the only one in town that had taught a foreign language. The reason was the state colleges passed a requirement that at least one year of a foreign language was required for admission.

The only language she taught was Latin, and I found it very helpful when I later took Spanish since Latin is the basis of several of the romance languages.

Making Latin a required language today would serve many purposes.....basis for Spanish, French, Italian. Yet, some asshole would find a problem with this as being racist.

Someone going to Spain. France or Italy should learn a few words as a courtesy to the people of those countries.

Can you imagine if someone ever proposed learingin

...

Making Latin a required language today would serve many purposes..........

Not as much as people make out.

As a basis for three languages? What other language provides that?

The correlation is not direct.

Do you speak any of the Romance languages?

 

[TooTall]

... Here in America, another language is an elective, not a requirement. ....

That is not true in most cases.

What school system requires the learning of a language other than English as a requirement for graduation? There are none in the United States that I know of, and if there are, it's a rarity.

When I went to school (graduated in 1982), taking another language was an elective not a requirement.

If you know of a place where a second language is a requirement for graduation, please post a link. I've never heard of such a rule from ANY school district here in America.

When I went to school taking foreign language classes were a requirement.

The small high school I attended in Wisconsin had to get a retired teacher to return to teaching since she was the only one in town that had taught a foreign language. The reason was the state colleges passed a requirement that at least one year of a foreign language was required for admission.

The only language she taught was Latin, and I found it very helpful when I later took Spanish since Latin is the basis of several of the romance languages.

I took 4 years of Latin in high school. But there wasn't enough students who took Latin 3 or 4 to justify the budget in a regular class. The teacher did it on her own time. She was a great teacher.

I will never forget my Latin teacher, Mrs Whitett. She translated from Latin to English a few pages of Julius Caesar every day. At the end of the year when she got to Et tu Brute, she laid her head down on the desk and cried her eyes out. The students that had previously taken the course said she did this every year.

 

[Political Junky]

Obama complained to Argentina that Americans are clueless with poor foreign language skills | BizPac Review

Getting away with impeachable offenses, holding him to his own standard and not America's makes it easy for him (anyone) to destroy America. America(ns) did nothing to deserve this. Such a shame how shallow people in position of representation have become held to a standard of their own. Policies make everyone and thing into what anti-Americans with authority want where cowards of politics lead everyone to follow (by force of policy) .

First antiAmerican president? No. The first anti American that became president in the most sinister way possible...and with a lot of help beyond our ability but within expected duty of elected officials to stop!

Obama was absolutely right.

 

[Tom Horn]

What Barry left out is a whole generation of white kids have learned ebonics thanks to rap music!
For example: "No cracka mofo be shotted by tha po-po fa bein on da downlow, no no."

 

[Unkotare]

The small high school I attended in Wisconsin had to get a retired teacher to return to teaching since she was the only one in town that had taught a foreign language. The reason was the state colleges passed a requirement that at least one year of a foreign language was required for admission.

The only language she taught was Latin, and I found it very helpful when I later took Spanish since Latin is the basis of several of the romance languages.

Making Latin a required language today would serve many purposes.....basis for Spanish, French, Italian. Yet, some asshole would find a problem with this as being racist.

Someone going to Spain. France or Italy should learn a few words as a courtesy to the people of those countries.

Can you imagine if someone ever proposed learingin

...

Making Latin a required language today would serve many purposes..........

Not as much as people make out.

As a basis for three languages? What other language provides that?

The correlation is not direct.

Do you speak any of the Romance languages?

I get by.

 

[Unkotare]

Obama complained to Argentina that Americans are clueless with poor foreign language skills | BizPac Review

Getting away with impeachable offenses, holding him to his own standard and not America's makes it easy for him (anyone) to destroy America. America(ns) did nothing to deserve this. Such a shame how shallow people in position of representation have become held to a standard of their own. Policies make everyone and thing into what anti-Americans with authority want where cowards of politics lead everyone to follow (by force of policy) .

First antiAmerican president? No. The first anti American that became president in the most sinister way possible...and with a lot of help beyond our ability but within expected duty of elected officials to stop!

Obama was absolutely right.

How so?

 

[guno]

Improvement of foreign language skills could begin in grade school by taking class time away from learning masturbation techniques and instead use that time to study a foreign language.

or teaching catholic kids to go in a dark booth with a priest

 

[Tom Horn]

I'm not a doctor/lawyer/dog washer but I've had occasion to speak to maids and housekeepers in French and Spanish.

You may have as well but you're the sort who would put on a show of being too good to speak to the health.

Ugly Americans make me ashamed.

How about handsome Americans like myself? And why are you talking to maids and housekeepers?

 

[guno]

You know, there is a bit of truth to this, and I've experienced it firsthand.

Whenever I went overseas, one of the very first things that I did was get a phrase book for whatever country we happened to be in. I would take that phrase book with me and instead of going up to a person and asking them in slow English if they spoke English (like most of the people on the boat did), I would walk up with my phrase book and try to speak to them in their language. After all, I was the foreigner there.

What I found out later, was that over 80 percent of the people overseas actually DO speak English, and many of them are happy to practice their English with you, but they like it when you make an effort to communicate in their language. Usually, they would let me stumble around for a couple of minutes, but then would cheerfully tell me they spoke English, and ask if I preferred to speak that.

I also saw many of my shipmates go looking for places like Pizza Hut, KFC, Burger King and McDonalds instead of taking advantage of the opportunity to sample food that isn't known over here in the USA, or would cost them a lot of money at a fancy eatery, because foreign cuisine is generally only served at high dollar places (at least the good stuff).

I also saw them making fun of people over there for doing things that Americans considered "strange" or "unusual", like Middle Eastern men walking down the street holding hands if they were friends, simply because they didn't take time to learn about some of the customs that were there.

No, sorry to say, but very few Americans are interested in speaking to someone in another country in their native language, or even learning about some of the customs of that country.

Got over 20 years of experience with that, and saw it first hand quite often.

Now in NYC Spanish is being taught elementary schools as a core course

 

[LeftofLeft]

Making Latin a required language today would serve many purposes.....basis for Spanish, French, Italian. Yet, some asshole would find a problem with this as being racist.

Someone going to Spain. France or Italy should learn a few words as a courtesy to the people of those countries.

Can you imagine if someone ever proposed learingin

...

Making Latin a required language today would serve many purposes..........

Not as much as people make out.

As a basis for three languages? What other language provides that?

The correlation is not direct.

Do you speak any of the Romance languages?

I get by.

So too do the Americans that Obama is bitching about.

 

[Political Junky]

You know, there is a bit of truth to this, and I've experienced it firsthand.

Whenever I went overseas, one of the very first things that I did was get a phrase book for whatever country we happened to be in. I would take that phrase book with me and instead of going up to a person and asking them in slow English if they spoke English (like most of the people on the boat did), I would walk up with my phrase book and try to speak to them in their language. After all, I was the foreigner there.

What I found out later, was that over 80 percent of the people overseas actually DO speak English, and many of them are happy to practice their English with you, but they like it when you make an effort to communicate in their language. Usually, they would let me stumble around for a couple of minutes, but then would cheerfully tell me they spoke English, and ask if I preferred to speak that.

I also saw many of my shipmates go looking for places like Pizza Hut, KFC, Burger King and McDonalds instead of taking advantage of the opportunity to sample food that isn't known over here in the USA, or would cost them a lot of money at a fancy eatery, because foreign cuisine is generally only served at high dollar places (at least the good stuff).

I also saw them making fun of people over there for doing things that Americans considered "strange" or "unusual", like Middle Eastern men walking down the street holding hands if they were friends, simply because they didn't take time to learn about some of the customs that were there.

No, sorry to say, but very few Americans are interested in speaking to someone in another country in their native language, or even learning about some of the customs of that country.

Got over 20 years of experience with that, and saw it first hand quite often.

Now in NYC Spanish is being taught elementary schools as a core course

Good

 

[Katzndogz]

Improvement of foreign language skills could begin in grade school by taking class time away from learning masturbation techniques and instead use that time to study a foreign language.

or teaching catholic kids to go in a dark booth with a priest

The Catholics should have purged the gays out of the priesthood early.

 

[Unkotare]

Someone going to Spain. France or Italy should learn a few words as a courtesy to the people of those countries.

Can you imagine if someone ever proposed learingin

Not as much as people make out.

As a basis for three languages? What other language provides that?

The correlation is not direct.

Do you speak any of the Romance languages?

I get by.

So too do the Americans that Obama is bitching about.

????

 

[Katzndogz]

I'm not a doctor/lawyer/dog washer but I've had occasion to speak to maids and housekeepers in French and Spanish.

You may have as well but you're the sort who would put on a show of being too good to speak to the health.

Ugly Americans make me ashamed.

How about handsome Americans like myself? And why are talking to maids and housekeepers?

He's speaking to the health whatever that means.

I'm too good to lower myself to learn the language of the person cleaning the toilets. They are in this country, speak the language.