As an American who grew up at a religious school in the 90s, we absolutely did not (or at least I never had access to one). Obviously places like Kora or Tibet have been effected in their history (I still want to read your answers ๐Ÿ˜), but what about, for example, New Zealand? Or Sierra Leonne? Or Portugal? I'm just curious to see how pervasive the new Global Language already is by this point.

BonusQuestion: Is it mostly following their Belt-and-Road Initiative? Wouldn't that be something?

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[โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

My high school in a semi rural part of the Southern US had a Chinese language class that you could choose to take for your foreign language credit back in the early 2010s. I think it's a false premise to say that it's not taught in the US, most kids just choose to take easier languages like German, French, or Spanish

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  • [โ€“] [S] 0 points 1 year ago

    I definitely should've worded the post better but yeah I didn't mean to imply that it's never taught in the states. Just that my personal experience in the system (also southern but urban) didn't really give me any chances ๐Ÿ˜• But honestly a large reason for that probably just came from my particular setting (I'm NOT typing that whole thing out again but in one of my reply threads I go into more detail on the weird things I grew up learning)

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