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Before we started home schooling, they were teaching my daughter Spanish in second grade. I asked them to send her to the library when they did that, they did at first but then stopped.
Glad I'm home schooling!

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old comment by Evil Deadite

I get it. If your daughter learned Spanish, she would then be capable of communicating with people you can't. The problems here are two fold:

1.) She will gain outside information. This would penetrate the shield of fundie insulation you have built around her, allowing external thoughts, concepts, and life-views to intermingle with those you have forced upon her and may lead to her making choices about her beliefs all on her own.

2.) By learning Spanish, she would be able to communicate with non English speaking folk from nations south of ours. In doing so, she will start to see them less as brown threats to her future employment, but as unique individual people with families, lives, hopes, dreams. When they stop being charicatures of fear and evil and become actual humans, your daughter will gain a perspective on people "different" from herself. It may lead to her choosing not to instantly project her personal beliefs and culture on those around her, but instead come to appreciate the diversity of lifestyles that in fact influence and enrich her own life.

So in short, yes, Jesus hates Spanish.

old comment by Joules

... Even when I was at school (which is longer ago than I care to remember) we had to take at least one foreign language as an O Level (I took French and Latin - German was the only other language offered at the time). My son, now 13, is learning French, German and Spanish in his compulsory Modern Foreign Languages classes at school (though admittedly he's at an exceptionally good school). I'm delighted. He's not quite so keen - it's quite hard work, although he does enjoy his Spanish! - but gets quite a kick out of finding he can follow conversations in all three languages. British education - at its best, it's wonderful...

Edit: Why aren't the codes working?

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Yes, because it's not like America is only one of the countries on this Earth of ours, it's not like it's dependent on other countries for products and goods, it's not like it's a member of the UN or NATO or any other international organization, it's not like it's a player in the world economy.

No, America is our "poor, provincial town." It's a magnificent island, all by itself, separated from all the other foreign lands of the world. And it's completely homogeneous. All that stuff you hear about it being a melting pot is utterly untrue and is the work of the godless liberal media. Manhattan and Brooklyn are separate islands, far away from us, with their hideous mix of nationalities. Not to mention that the GAYS dwell in Manhattan! We don't consider those Babel-wannabes as part of our country! Therefore, learning about other languages and cultures is completely unnecessary and evil.

/Okay, sarcasm over./

Newsflash, tygerkittn, I'm an American and I'm a complete global geek. I LOVE learning other languages and I love learning about other world cultures. So, now, I will gleefully call you an idiot in six languages (Spanish, Greek, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese; I hope I've gotten the translations right).

Tu eres una idiota.

Esi ise mia anoiti.

Tu es une idiote.

Du bist ein Idiot.

Siete un idiota.

Você é um idiota.

old comment by Anon-e-moose

"Before we started home schooling, they were teaching my daughter Spanish in second grade. I asked them to send her to the library when they did that, they did at first but then stopped."

Wel, it helps when you're a burger flipper at a McDonalds's or Burger King in a mainly Latino section of where you live, to be able to say '¿Desea fríe con eso?'

(probably why Spanish is such a major 2nd language curriculum in US schools; more so than, say, French & German taught in UK schools)

"Glad I'm home schooling!"

Meanwhile, there's millions of parents in the US (certainly in the UK) saying 'Glad I'm sending my children to state schools, where they're encouraged to think for themselves! Then to college, and university, where they'll get a good education, to give them a fighting chance in becoming a physician/surgeon/dentist, physicist/engineer, lawyer, or even a teacher, so they'll make a good living and contribute to humanity as a whole!'

Meanwhile tygerkittn, your child is flipping burgers...

@Swede

"I can add to that list with Swedish:
Du är en idiot."

Or as we say in Yorkshire (the dialect known as 'Tyke'):

'Ee, there's nowt as queer as folk!'

@JohnTheAtheist

"Jesus did not speak English."

But would be fun to see those parts of Scripture translated into Tyke, or Geordie/Mackem, Manc, Scouse, or Brummie.

old comment by Professor M

While I can't bring myself to regret my choice of second language (my parents may have been Americans, but I was born in France, albeit a part of France that happened to have been an island in the South Pacific and might more positively have been represented by the indigenous language and the first culture to really master trans-oceanic navigation), Spanish is really the language other than American English most likely to be useful to Americans. Hell, if I were raising kids and living in L.A. I'd be pretty distinctly tempted to sign my kids up for the Semillas del Pueblo school, which would teach them not only Spanish but Mandarin and Nahuatl. Everything we know about language acquisition says that early exposure to multiple languages plays a huge role in language-acquisition ability later in life; and I'd want my kids to be more polylingual than I am.

old comment by Anon-e-moose

@Whoever (emphasis added):

"OH NOES! NOT ANOTHER LANGUAGE! Everyone knows Jesus only spoke English."

And speaking as an Englishman (as in UK), Ergo...:

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'God is British - because we never get any fucking earthquakes, tornadoes or hurricanes in Britain. And Jesus is British: he was born in Bethnal Green.'

-Al Murray (Pub Landlord)

Q.E.D., fundie American bitches (going by their logic! >:D ).

When you can invent - and use - your own unique language, tygerkittn & co. on Ruptured Retards (as well as all your ilk over there), then you can say otherwise. Oh but then, American Marc Okrand already has: Klingon. Incidentally, the KJV ('Klingon J'Hames Version'?!*) has already been translated into that language, so good luck with learning it.

Qapla'.

It's either that, or learn one of the Aboriginal 'Indian' languages. After all, There's no such thing as a language called 'American'.

*- There's already the Complete Works of Shakespeare translated into Klingon; one has already been published: "Hamlet", as in "The Tragedy of Khamlet, Son of the Emperor of Qo'noS"

'You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.'

-Chancellor Gorkon, "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country"

"taH pagh, taH be'?" ("To be, or not to be?")

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@pieguy259

"...Que?"

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'Hhello, hou har yuu? Hai schpeak Eenghleesh verre guud, hai lhearn eet fhrom eh buuk.'

-Manuel, "Fawlty Towers"

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