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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Love how this thread immediately turned into a bunch of self-declared language-experts asserting that German is a worthless foreign language :D So American.

Barely any American learns ANY foreign language to a degree where they can really communicate with it. If "Utility is the name of the game" quit foreign languages altogether. YOu already (more or less) speak the world-ruling language, which is English.

Every bigger foreign language in the US has been in severe decline except Spanish, which is mainly a reason of the failing US education system (only in 16 of 50 states is exposure to a foreign language mandatory to get a high school degree). French, German, Italian, Portuguese... cuz y'all "experts" can't see the value in them it means they're dead in your eyes.

Go ahead, focus on your precious Spanish. No one outside the Americas and Spain itself gives a rat's but about Spanish. Can say that about every language (except English).[/quote]

Really glib, but the general experience of most Americans I know is that almost every interaction until you're into far rural Germany is much more likely to be better conducted in English, i.e., they speak it well or OK, and your German is rudimentary. So unless you're headed to a longterm experience, getting to middling German in a US high school doesn't facilitate better communication.

Annoying, but . . . you're going to probably say I'm a philistine and my kids should just try harder and get better at it. So we can go to rural parts of three countries. For more than a month at a time, I guess.[/quote]

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