American Education and Foreign Language Learning

[Vulxai]

Rosetta stone is too expensive since a copy of the program needs to be bought for each computer. My school tried to get it but they couldn't afford it and it's not like they're going to go torrent it like an individual who wanted it.

 

Anyways, I'm on my 5th year of learning a second language now. I'll admit I'm no where near fluent, but I can hold a decent conversation. Will it be grammatically correct, no. Understandable, probably

 

It doesn't need to be, the army gets Rosetta Stone for free, and I'm sure they can cut a huge deal for schools.

 

I've always hated american education, for it's complete lack of any actual educating. They basically make you memorize everything, teaching you the same thing all through k-8, then at 9-12, you get to choose which crap they stuff down your throats >.> The music department was the only part I enjoyed and I often skipped most of my classes to hang out in the band room my senior year, so I could pursue the things I was interested in. Luckily I didn't get in trouble seeing as I was failing anyways so whatever, I just got my diploma through homeschooling myself >.>

 

I think it would be cool to know a foreign language, but I honestly would not care to learn that much, not because I'm so elitist [puncture] who thinks everyone should learn English, but because I don't care to travel that much and I don't honestly have much time to learn a foreign language when I spend all my days with music!

 

That's not American Education, that's your school. My school actually did a good job at teaching, they connected with the students, and actually TAUGHT us.

 

TO THE OP: I have to disagree with you. English is a very predominant language, if you want to learn another language, you can do that on your own, that shouldn't be forced upon us.