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Did anyone else find their Spanish classes in High School entirely useless? (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I took three years of Spanish and got an A every semester. Even when it was still fresh in my mind, I was nowhere near able to hold even a very simple conversation. And now just a few years later it's all totally gone from my brain.

My mother's native language is Spanish and she never taught me, which I resent her for. But I still find it incredible how shitty my public school education in Spanish was. We really should be teaching kids a second language from kindergarten up.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Teaching language in high school is stupid they should be teaching it as early as possible.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I had French since 4th grade up to 9th grade Even tho I always aced my tests I never quite got the hang of the language to me it was just some rules I memorized

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Ontarian spotted

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

As a comparison, here's what an EU report from 2012 said:

Children are starting to learn foreign languages at an increasingly early age in Europe, with most pupils beginning when they are 6-9 years old

an increasing number of pupils now learn two languages for at least one year during compulsory education. On average, in 2009/10, 60.8% of lower secondary education students were learning two or more foreign languages