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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Meh. Unpopular opinion but most of these kids aren’t going to learn enough Mandarin to do anything with it anyway. In fact most kids don’t learn enough of a second language in the US (in school) for it to be useful. [/quote]

None of them has a chance of it becoming "useful" if they don't learn it in the first place.

But there is so much more education involved in learning a language than it being useful for a job or something.  Grammar, vocabulary, memorization, geography, history, comparative arts, literature, and culture, etc etc. are all part of learning a language.  And it's good for the brain.

Everyone learning Spanish is what's "meh." It's a good language to learn, but it hardly makes us educated in aggregate.[/quote]

I agree with above of the numerous benefits of learning another language even if you don’t achieve fluency.

But disagree that Spanish is meh.  It’s a huge advantage to be able to converse in Spanish if you are in any service oriented field such as business, medicine, law, sales, etc… not to mention if you outsource things like lawn, housekeeping, etc… and our DS being able to communicate with locals on 3 continents on his travels is priceless.[/quote]

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