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[quote=Anonymous][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]

We live in the US and the Americas and Spain is a large enough swath of the world for it to be worth it.  [b]Who outside of Western Europe gives a rat’s butt about German?[/b][/quote]

We do.  Most my ancestors were from Germany, I was an exchange student with Youth for Understanding in Munich for a year in high school and concentrated in German at an Ivy.  I've work for the Dept. of Commerce in a job where I've often used my German for the past 20 years.

The question you should be asking is why many strong suburban middle and high schools in this Metro area routinely offer between half a dozen and a dozen languages from 6th grade while our DC public schools tend to offer no more than one, two or three, not very seriously as that other than perhaps for Spanish at DCI and maybe J-R. [/quote]

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