I mean the whole school I went through kept nailing in our heads how much a foreign language would benefit you. I guess this went under the noses of whoever like teaching kids to balance a checkbook.

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Go on radio.garden and try to find non-english music. My point is it's wild how much English has become a common language worldwide, even if it's not the first language

If every state had a different language they'd be more like europeans that have second and third languages as a normal thing. But it's almost all English, everywhere all the time unless you are near Mexico.

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    We do, but like anything else you learn the basics and a few classes won't make you fluent. You need immersion to get good and if you don't use it you lose it.

    The people that use it are already in a multi language home and took the class because it's super easy for them. Just about everyone else won't really have a chance to use it outside of the classroom so everything we learn fades quickly

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