Myth: “Martha wouldn’t have passed without that immersion program.” And yet, after 6 years of Spanish I can’t even say “I will eat a cookie”. Complicated stuff, isn’t it? Reading and understanding your average JavaScript function is a ton more complicated than saying “I will eat a cookie”. If you don’t think programming languages qualify, do me a favor and view the source of this webpage. Ditto airline pilots.Ĭomputer programmers learn other languages far past childhood age. Doctors don’t need to learn their profession when they’re young. There’s no other subject out there that uses age as a crutch. Myth: “It’s a good thing Timmy learned when he was young, because that’s the best time to learn it!” So generation after generation keeps failing their way through the system.
Teachers keep passing students instead of failing them because not having a second language isn’t a big detriment in the US. That’s much worse.įoreign language teachers in the US have wasted the time of generation after generation.
It was for thousands of dollars because I was in private high school and private college. My classmates and I spent hundreds of hours for nothing. In 20 hours of class, we covered more subject material than my schools did in 6 years. I learned more in that 4 days than I did in 6 years. Shocking!Īlicia and I took a 4-day Spanish course in Buenos Aires. Unlike US teachers, Duolingo doesn’t let you progress until you actually know the material. Every year the teacher was somehow shocked that we knew nothing, but still passed everyone on to the next level. Every year we learned the absolute basics of the language and nothing else. Repeat the above for 6 years, and you get my joke of a foreign language education. The students enroll in the next level even though their knowledge is crap. At the end of the year, the teacher passes the class even though they didn’t get through nearly what they should have. The teacher sticks with the basics for the entire year. The teacher scraps the lesson plan because the class is performing poorly.
The students show up for the new year, and struggle. Correction: those teachers deserve to be fired, put on a rocket, and shot into the sun.įoreign language class in the US looks like this: And those teachers deserve to be replaced. Wish I learned another language at school in the USĭuolingo will replace US foreign language teachers in the US.
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