american's must be stupid-they only know one language....

[BlaqueKatt]

I hate when I hear that if you don't speak more than 1 language that your an uncultured arrogant American with no respect for other cultures.

we've had this thread already

[Boozy]

we've had this thread already

And I hath merged them.

Thanks for providing the link!

[jackfaire]

And I hath merged them.

Thanks for providing the link!

I feel like DC and Marvel now

[linguist]

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Foreign language education in the States is laughable, .

it really is. in most other countries foreign language education starts at the equivalent of elementary level. here, students generally are lucky to start in middle school, and most don't even start until high school. add to that that they're not encouraged to actually use the language outside of the classroom, and you have a sad situation.

[BlaqueKatt]

And I hath merged them.

with thy Mod-like powers of awesome.....

[jackfaire]

"Why I've gone and merged them....Sir Peter is Gorbash!" (cookies for quote)

[Fryk]

The Flight of Dragons


GIMME COOKIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jackfaire]

The Flight of Dragons


GIMME COOKIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1) I am impressed

2) SQUUUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! I just found out they are releasing Flight of the Dragons on DVD!!!!!!!

[Fryk]

1)Never underestimate my ability to know useless stuff. (Just like in the thread)

@) And most important... When?????????

[jackfaire]

@) And most important... When?????????

http://www.amazon.com/Flight-Dragons...1292784&sr=8-1

Now already bought my copy and one to give my mom for Christmas.

And they even kept the original artwork that pictures Carolinus as the purple wizard!!!

[Greenday]

it really is. in most other countries foreign language education starts at the equivalent of elementary level. here, students generally are lucky to start in middle school, and most don't even start until high school. add to that that they're not encouraged to actually use the language outside of the classroom, and you have a sad situation.

Man, the rest of the US kills me. Back home, we all started learning Spanish in the 1st grade. By the time I got to high school, they started people a year earlier in kindergarten.

[DesignFox]

I didn't even get introduced to the idea of foreign languages until 8th grade...where we learned a bit of German, a bit of Spanish and a bit of French. I was lucky to get one, maybe two (I can't remember anymore) years of German in high school before the class had to be canceled due to lack of interest, and I had one semester of German in college.

I think I was drawn to German because it was the first language they started us with in 8th grade, so it was the easiest to start learning by that point.

If they had started us much younger, that would have been awesome. Probably would have picked it up a lot faster.

As an adult, I sort of want to learn Spanish. But, I'm pretty set in my ways, and unless I can find someone to converse with, it's not gonna stick. Likely, I won't be able to avoid having to learn it (at some point) depending on where I end up choosing to live/work.



I'm not stupid. Everyone in my area has always been English speaking.

[protege]

I'm not stupid. Everyone in my area has always been English speaking.

Same here. I took several years of Spanish in high school. Pointless really, since nobody in Pittsburgh speaks it, other than the odd tourist. And even then, most of them use English anyway. Odd, because my city supposedly does have a growing Hispanic population

[DesignFox]

Same here. I took several years of Spanish in high school. Pointless really, since nobody in Pittsburgh speaks it, other than the odd tourist. And even then, most of them use English anyway. Odd, because my city supposedly does have a growing Hispanic population

Your population doesn't feel as entitled as the population around parts of my state apparently. The places I've worked in the past, you are all but expected to speak Spanish, no one even bothers trying to communicate with you otherwise.

The area I'm currently in is similar to how Pittsburgh sounds. We all speak English and that's that. There's very little bending on that because...well..there just isn't anyone around who CAN, even if they wanted to...which...for better or worse, they don't.

[jackfaire]

There are parts of our country where the families who insist on still speaking Spanish have lived there ancestrally longer than any of the English speakers.

I have a friend whose family in Southern California still speaks spanish and got told by someone who had moved their from the East Coast to "go home". She had to laugh as her family has owned the land since before there was a United States.