Those who have never learnt another language most likely are terrible learners as it must be difficult for them.
The Eastern European has already learned 2 lanaguages by the time they reach secondary school. Mad isn't it.
It is not mad at all. You know my mother tongue is Hungarian and the official language here is Romanian. So in the first grade we had both Hungarian and Romanian classes. Then in the second grade we picked up French, then in the fifth grade we started to learn Russian. That is four languages at the age of 10. Is that mad? For us it was normal as that was a must. Then later I started learning English and Italian. Now I can speak 4 languages and when I am asked about it, people think I'm lying.
There is a saying in Hungarian, that you are as many persons as many languages you speak. This may sound stupid, but there's a lot of truth in it.
I meant more mad that the English only learn one. Yeah a bouple of my romanian friends have 4 or more. Very impressive
Whose fault it is if the English only learn one? The education system, parents, the child's, the child once they are old enough to choose for themselves, the entire country?
I'd say it's a gift to have been pushed to learn more languages, not a source of frustration.
The country. The Rule Britainia mentality. They do have a choices of languages in secondary school but they are not that bothered. The time to learn a language is before the age of 9. It just doesn't happen there.
Got it. Thanks. I didn't expect you to respond so fast! I had added a comment to my first reply that I think it's a gift to be pushed to learn multiple language. It may be tougher as student, but the lifelong benefits seem to be worth it.
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