Did anyone else find their Spanish classes in High School entirely useless?
Did anyone else find their Spanish classes in High School entirely useless?
I took three years of Spanish and got an A every semester. Even when it was still fresh in my mind, I was nowhere near able to hold even a very simple conversation. And now just a few years later it's all totally gone from my brain.
My mother's native language is Spanish and she never taught me, which I resent her for. But I still find it incredible how shitty my public school education in Spanish was. We really should be teaching kids a second language from kindergarten up.
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It's amazing how someone can be so "red-pilled" when it comes to politics (the ill effects of capitalism, patriarchy, colonialism, etc.) yet be so "blue-pilled" when it comes to language learning. I've watched soooo many on this site completely go the blue-pill route when it comes to language learning, such as saying "Hey guys I'm going to start learning Chinese! I'm doing Duolingo!" Might as well learn about socialism from AOC because it's that fucking ridiculous.
For fucks sake no investigation no right to speak. It's pretty clear that the standard approach of textbooks/classes is pretty whack. As others have noted in this thread, Comprehensible Input is pretty much the red pill, at least when it comes to input (output is another matter).
Also there's some weird TERF-style essentialism in this thread along the lines of "if you're not a little child then your brain is fucked, sorry old geezer!!!" Once again, look at all the people who have gotten massive success with Comprehensible Input in this thread, with things like Dreaming Spanish.
No wonder Global South leftists make fun of us, we can't even do something they take for granted (knowing more than one language).