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.
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I could get behind mandatory instruction in a second language in schools but any sort of knowledge requirements for citizenship really rub me the wrong way
Oh ... ogey ... just to clarify, I didn't mean for mandatory bilingualism to be necessarily related to education, but more or less natural exposure, if not language tutoring by its native speakers...
As for citizenship, I should've retracted it, but I was supposing that this requirement only applies if you reach the age of 18 in the post...
So if someone doesn't know two languages by the time they turn 18 they would get their citizenship taken away? Anyway what I was getting at is that citizenship is basically a person's personhood under the current state system, so there should really be as few things tied to that as possible (birthright and/or residency only imo)
I prbly should've stopped myself from typing that...
I really wish I had learned a second language (properly past the intro classes in high school).
I really wish I had the time or energy to learn a second language.
Well, I mean its not too late. I figure another bare thing you need for it is personal motivation and natural exposure to it...