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If it were vital or very advantageous for Americans to acquire a second language in order to be successful internationally, you can be sure that it would be prioritized.
Actually, neither the US nor English-speaking Canada nor the UK nor any other anglophone country is really great at encouraging fluent second language acquisition, for the simple reason that this is correctly viewed as a great amount of effort for a small return. English is already the global language of technology, science, medicine, and business.
Learning a second language may be personally enriching; I believe it is, but this is not considered highly motivating by a majority of people.
Language acquisition is a huge advantage- instead of people telling you what they are saying you already know
This is why Americans trained in Vietnamese were so very valuable in the war
Pure gold
Language acquisition is a huge advantage- instead of people telling you what they are saying you already know
This is why Americans trained in Vietnamese were so very valuable in the war
Pure gold
There are apps for that now. Similarly there are apps for those who are deaf which will convert to text on a mobile phone whatever a hearing person is saying to them in person.
There are apps for that now. Similarly there are apps for those who are deaf which will convert to text on a mobile phone whatever a hearing person is saying to them in person.
If you think google translate makes you fully bilingual and makes you capable of discerning nuances in context and meaning and intention and idiomatic expressions
I have a very nice bridge in San Francisco i would like to sell you
If you think google translate makes you fully bilingual and makes you capable of discerning nuances in context and meaning and intention and idiomatic expressions
I have a very nice bridge in San Francisco i would like to sell you
The app should be good enough for a casual tourist.
That's awesome. German is dying out in the US, and so are all academic German programs and exchanges. It has to be the communities who keep that stuff alive, and in the US there are really not many German-speaking communities left.
Canada has an officially higher standard of living than the US, thus possibly more reason for Germans to expatriate there instead of America. I know many Germans who have moved and are moving to Canada, not a single one moving to the US in recent time.
Not that simple at all. Look at the demographics. Much of the Midwest as far east as Pennsylvania is predominately German ethnically. The pure percentages have to do with the fact that Canada has next to no large cities or urban areas, while the rural areas of both countries have tons of German ethnics.
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