What kind of foreign language do young Americans learn in schools?

Mostly Spanish.

Ebonics

NONE until middle school or high school - so they never have a good accent

Mostly Soanish or French is offered - and usually not by native speakers

High schools when I went offered German, French, Spanish, Latin

My kids were offered Spanish or French - no schools had Latin or German

I had college language requirement

Not a language requirement in colleges anymore

The big push is Spanish in preschools and young ages - but not followed up - so they go years with no language

Many Americans never took ANY other languages in school - like my friend - he can't understand English spoken with a foreign accent - can't understand his doctors or customers if they are foreign

Sad

Last Edited by Theobromine on 02/14/2019 08:37 AM

They should teach Latin, then everyone cod be a doctor.. or a florist.

Thank you.

Ebonics....

English. As proper English is disappearing, being replaced by slang and text speak. Many Americans don’t know what some basic words mean. It’s sad. Proper English is even made fun of these days. If you text in proper English, you’re mocked as a grandma or grandpa. Just look at to, two, and too, or there, their and they’re. But now it’s “I could of” instead of “I could’ve.”
Sad. Truly sad. And now some universities will grade papers on effort instead of grammar and English standards.

Here in Arizona? English.

Does ebonics count as a language?

The United States borders on two countries that speak languages other than English: Spanish in Mexico and French in Quebec, Canada. It would make sense to teach Spanish in the SW and French in the NE part of the country.

A lot of the wealthy kids are learning Mandarin.....they are setting their kids up for the future.....language of business.....

My grandkids are learning, just because you have a penis doesn't mean you're a boy.

I think our grand kids go to the same school.

Home school/online school, my kids have a choice to learn spanish, german, french, or chinese.

As far as I know, it's not a requirement in public elementary school until middle and high school, although parents may choose other options such as immersion schools and private schools.

I personally took Spanish every year for 6 years from 7th-12th grade and another 4 years in College, but I went to private schools.

Exactly.

This is what the public school system would rather indoctrinate teach American children.

Spanish DEFINITELY.

There are more Spanish than anything I think and they are big networkers and farmers. They have a connection for ANYTHING and if tshtf youd want to be able to barter with them for chickens or food or something. They're actually pretty smart people.

Ebonics by far. Spoken in every major American City by large percentages of their population.

E·bon·ics
Dictionary result for Ebonics
/ēˈbäniks/
noun

American black English regarded as a language in its own right rather than as a dialect of standard English.

Sad. I regret not taking more languages in school.

English (compulsory) started when I was 10, Swedish (compulsory) when I was 14 and I had to choose a third language (German for me) when I was 15. In high school, I took classes in all three languages and had I not chosen maths/physics emphasis, I could have taken a fourth and fifth language. In college, you could take advanced courses in all of these and start a couple of new languages.

I wasted this opportunity and now I can communicate only in Finnish, Swedish and English, as I let myself forget German.

Last Edited by Tainted Meat on 02/14/2019 11:33 AM

i know of a high school that was teaching arab until parents went all dark ages and forced the school to stop teaching the class i would think that is a good language to learn...

in socal elementaries are teaching mandarin thats been going on for awhile