Re: American Jingoism
| From: | jogloran <exponent@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, February 16, 2002, 8:04 |
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Count yourselves lucky! In the US you rarely start a
foreign language until you're 14 to 16. Attempts to
start younger are usually bilingual efforts in heavily
Spanish-speaking areas, where it is highly
controversial, because, *of course*, everybody should
learn English. :P
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Wow, that's strange... most schools here in Australia have compulsory
language learning in primary school (which is Kindergarten to 6th
grade here), and at my high school, you are made to do 1 term each of
French, German, Japanese and Latin in Year 7, then in Year 8 you get
to choose one of them. Year 9 onwards, it's on an elective basis (you
can if you want).
At my primary school we got taught French, and I'm taking Japanese at
school now.
Imperative
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