in reply to (lang: en) Monks qui parlent des langages autres que l'anglais
Perhaps I can shed a little bit of light on why so many (it seems) Americans don't speak anything other than English. The bottom line is most don't care to learn anything beyond what is absolutely required of them. I'm from a very rural area of East Tennessee (Powell Valley, to be exact) and my high school graduating class was ~60. We were required to take two semesters of a foreign language. There was only one language offered, Spanish. How much Spanish do I know now? Very little. I remember a few phrases, some of the grammatical rules, but that's it. In my youth, I figured this was information I'd never need, so I didn't put forth much effort. This, coupled with the fact that the quarter back for the football team was in my class, along with a few of his chums, made it a complete impossibly to learn anything even if I was just dying to become bi-lingual. He got his 'D' (the minimum required grade) the year I took Spanish. It was his 3rd time taking the class. Get the idea?
/\/\averick
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