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What do you call a person who only speaks 1 language?

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An American.

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demilypyro:

I thought Americans got Spanish in school?

american education is a joke. we are required to take a foreign language class to graduate highschool but we only need one credit and dont learn anywhere near enough to actually be usefull

Reblogged 1 year ago from demilypyro
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  1. 0ryza13 said: Nope only some private schools (to clarify, I mean privatized, as in paid-tuition) have it before high school, then most public (government run) high schools only require 2 years of your choice of language (options include Latin, French, German, Spanish, maybe other depending on the school) to graduate. White several-generation Americans just only speak English for the most part.
  2. rubytuesdaysofficial said: we’re bad language students 😔
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  4. kyropinesis said: i have some ability to use american sign language, but i can confirm that high school spanish classes are not enough to be fluent
  5. phantomarts said: I mean I live in the middle of texas, and as you might imagine from a place boardering another country theres a pretty large number of people who can also speak spanish here….I am not one of them
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  7. asklittlepip said: I mean, educational quality in the US will depend a lot on just how rich (and what direction politically..) a given state is. They barely keep the roads functional, so you ain’t getting any kind of learnin’ in Oklahoma, but in Pennsylvania, the language courses in my HS included Spanish, French, Italian and German, with a Japanese class available as well! The latter was done remotely (with the teacher on a TV, using a camera elsewhere) due to the lower demand, but still!
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