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Oct 8, 2024
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rtNelson
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I'm surprised foreign language missionaries don't teach their kids more often.
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POLL: Do you still speak and/or practice and/or work on a foreing language while living
Archaea
1:58pm
Switched to a new language to learn
md7Coug
2:02pm
What did you learn?
Archaea
2:05pm
Spanish
md7Coug
3:03pm
I'm surprised foreign language missionaries don't teach their kids more often.
rtNelson
2:03pm
They weren't interested. That is, until they took a foreign language class in
paulb
2:05pm
Just speak with them in that language when they're babies. No "classes".
rtNelson
2:09pm
That requires a lot of dedication it helps if both spouses understand the lan-
Archaea
2:12pm
It is not at all effortless for the child to learn, no.
OrsoNero
2:57pm
Unless you are persistent with at least one parent ONLY speaking the foreign
Archaea
2:06pm
That's definitely fair. The people I know who grew up with more than one
rtNelson
2:12pm
Yes. We tried with our children, and even had one attend school in Spanish
Archaea
2:14pm
That's a large part of why it wasn't consistent with me. I was communicative in
paulb
2:19pm
the people I have seen do that have been weirdos
Turd Ferguson
3:06pm
My foreign language involvement consists of watching Spanish shows on Netflix
Indy Coug
2:03pm
With all your time in the Kingdom, you never learned Gulf Arabic?
Archaea
2:10pm
Why? That wasn’t going to travel with me later in life. Learn something useful, like French or Spanish.
Indy Coug
2:13pm
You could have worked for the CIA or oil and petroleum companies.
Archaea
2:14pm
Why would that have been appealing? I already lived there way too long as it was.
Indy Coug
2:16pm
I often wanted to be a spy or a rich oil magnate. You could have learned the
Archaea
2:18pm
I feel yes, still decent enough would be my answer. So I picked the lowest yes.
paulb
2:04pm
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