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I think every country needs to have a mandatory bilingual policy (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In short: By the time a person is 18, they must effectively be able to communicate and understand conversationally in 2 languages and casually use them in daily life..., if not become completely fluent...

Other than that, any language goes (whether it is a locally-known one, or a popular one worldwide),

The only thing I hope to gain from this, is to rid the world of /Monolingual Betas/

Seriously though, has this been a policy before? Because I haven't heard of such one...

I think this can especially be used for citizenship...

Edit: I don't necessarily have any other presupposed requirements besides bilingualism, though we may have certain notions of such in this main goal

Edit II: In furthering this venture, I have realized that my liberalism may slightly poisoned my lens....

And for clarification...

Minimum dual language system:

Main national language + other language (likely another related language, but foreign ones are fine)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They don't?

In South Africa it's mandatory to take an additional language in school. You have a home language and first additional language.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm, that's good...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was even mandatory in my high school in Texas (Burgerland state where they’re building a wall).

That doesn’t mean you actually walk away remembering it, especially depending on the teacher and your ability to retain it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rote memorization of phrases isn’t learning a language. It’s memorizing a dictionary. It’s the worst possible way to teach a language which is why everyone forgets everything within 3 years of graduation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Right, but not every school district in the US does it that way any more. I’m sure plenty do though.