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Education > Education (Other) Should all school pupils be made to learn at least one foreign language?

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While I do not think anyone should "be made to learn" anything, I strongly believe we should teach children a great many things. Language would definitely be top on my list. Learning a "foreign" language, at least the way it is done in American public schools at the secondary level, is not about learning to speak a second (or third, or fourth) language - it is about learning and understanding your first. Take any graduate of a second-year "foreign" language class and try to have a conversation with him in the target language. You will have a hard time getting past, "Hi, how are you? My nam...

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