Or open up job prospect and educational value?

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[–] 3 points 7 months ago

This topic comes up so often here...

I barely even remember much of anything taught in 2 years of spanish classes in middle school...

Now try 4 languages...

I never even have a situation where I need Spanish... and its the most popular language here behind English... imagine how quick French, German would atrophy... literally never met a french or german speaker irl...

I'm a native Mandarin speaker and since arriving in the US, I've only spoken it like to a total of 5 people maybe(?) (Mandarin not spoken at home, it's Cantonese instead) Like I rarely need it...

How many Americans (except for Chinese Americans visiting relatives maybe) would actually need to visit China?

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