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Purple_Ruby  ·  2769 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: So I'm leaning (old) Greek

I live in the Midwest. I'm sure I had friends who spoke Spanish at home, but they weren't open about it in person. It's very whitewashed up here in certain areas. I did move to an area after college that was heavily Spanish, and I could have used it then had I remembered any of it. I picked up certain words from the stores and stuff, but nothing to really stick with me. We really need to change how we view foreign languages here.

We shouldn't be waiting until high school to learn a second language. But who decides what the second language we learn at the same time as we start 1st or 2nd grade will be?





johnnyFive  ·  2769 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah. I was lucky in that I started in 7th grade (so about age 12), and I'm sure that helped.