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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one implied that high school FL confer fluency. Perhaps you need to go back and re-read the previous posts, more slowly.[/quote]

Being able to actually take to people in Spanish-speaking countries is fluency. And hs FL won’t get you that. [/quote]

Agreed. This poster claimed you often need to speak to people in their native language if you are outside of the major cities. I can say "Hola." I guess that counts  :D . My Spanish classes were not in vain!!

I speak another language that is not Spanish. I visit my birth country several times over the last decade, and saw all kinds of foreigners who don't speak a lick of my language walking around just fine.

They don't need to know crap. Many people travel to places where they don't speak the language ALL THE TIME. Would it be more convenient? Yes it would. But is that worth spending years and years of your life on potential convenience for traveling maybe a few times a year max?

Even if you want a job teaching a foreign language, which is actually a good reason to pursue FL fluency, many districts who can afford to be more selective won't hire people who are not native speakers anyway regardless of how good they are.[/quote]

+1 I went to sh*tty public schools and none of my Spanish teachers were native speakers. It was a joke. On another note, I really wish that curriculums were standardized across school districts, etc. [/quote]

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