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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to elementary school in Germany (a Germans school, not American military)and we had English every single day starting in Kindergarten. If the US wants to stay ahead in the world, they should start their children learning foreign language at an early age. It's much easier to learn if they are learning consistently (every day) at early ages.
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... but why? As someone well-traveled, interested in languages, who sent kids to an immersion school, and is a non-native English speaker to boot: most of the people you come in contact with abroad speak English, unless you are well off the beaten path, and if you are well off the beaten path, the chances of you having learnt the specific language of that well-off-the-beaten-path place is minimal (I had difficulty in Hungary communicating with someone who really didn't speak English. Not having had learned Hungarian in FLES, I tried German. That did not help.)

That's not even getting into auto-translation, which is just staggeringly good now for even relatively minor foreign languages into English. I can watch Danish TV with auto-translated captions and I can understand nearly all of what's going on, outside of a few cultural references. It takes years to hit that level.[/quote]

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