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should it be mandatory to speak the language of the country you wish to live in?
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--- Quote from: Javier on November 24, 2009, 01:16:39 PM --- It should be encouraged to speak more than one language.
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I like this thought. the two years we Americans have to take in HS is b.s. Other countries have kids taking 6-8 years of English. Look at all the posters here from other countries that you would never know they weren't native speakers until you see the soccer pics;)
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I think our schools need to work on teaching kids how to speak English first lol
Furor Teutonicus:
--- Quote from: the ghost on November 25, 2009, 12:54:51 PM ---
--- Quote from: Javier on November 24, 2009, 01:16:39 PM --- It should be encouraged to speak more than one language.
--- End quote ---
I like this thought. the two years we Americans have to take in HS is b.s. Other countries have kids taking 6-8 years of English. Look at all the posters here from other countries that you would never know they weren't native speakers until you see the soccer pics;)
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The important thing is to start as early as possible. In the first 4-5 years, kids can learn any language. After that, they slowly lose the ability due to changes in the brain. Starting to learn a language in High School is bullshit.
QuietTruth:
--- Quote from: the ghost on November 25, 2009, 12:54:51 PM ---
--- Quote from: Javier on November 24, 2009, 01:16:39 PM --- It should be encouraged to speak more than one language.
--- End quote ---
I like this thought. the two years we Americans have to take in HS is b.s. Other countries have kids taking 6-8 years of English. Look at all the posters here from other countries that you would never know they weren't native speakers until you see the soccer pics;)
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For real. How the hell do all these outta-country posters speak fluent English....even better than us. :-\
J.D. Wykid, Esq.:
mandatory? no.
Shallow:
I think it's up to the country to decide what the best interests of the country are with regards to language. In Canada the government deemed it law to promote the french language on the english side of the country in order for Canadians to remember the french roots of Canada. But if you live outside of Quebec you almost never speak french and can't understand a lick of it. So making a language law doesn't really mean anything.
Javier was right when he said it really means nothing in the end. The children of immigrants are usually fluent in the language of the country and their children can barely speak the old language period. I'm Greek and in Toronto most Greeks are either immigrants or children of immigrants. We speak Greek here very well. In Greek town the street signs have Greek names underneath the English signs but I can't think of one Greek/Canadian I know that grew up here whose Greek is better than his English. And the Greeks I meet from outside Toronto or from the US, the young adults, often speak no Greek at all. I met Greek family from Denver once last summer. They decided to visit the Church and I see what looked like an old Greek man with his grandchildren I greeted him in Greek "γειά σου θείο. Τι κάνεις". Him and the kids looked at me like I was an alien. In their Greek churches it's all English. The old guy was born in Chicago and moved to Denver. This guys dad fought off the Italians for Greece in WW2, and later the communists, just like my grandfather, but he couldn't speak a lick of it; growing up in Illinois and Colorado.
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