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As a US citizen, I strongly suspect that many smaller public schools (grades K-12) do not offer any foreign languages, or certainly do not require it. I know this is the case in my state. There is no obvious single choice for the language to teach, students will arrive with widely variable levels of
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By 1998 nearly all students in Europe studied at least one foreign language as part of their compulsory education, the only exception being Ireland, where primary and secondary schoolchildren learn both Irish and English, but neither is considered a foreign language (although Irish pupils do study a
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This article has a fairly strong introduction to foreign language, however, more information is needed to make this article useful for readers. The headings are clear and concise, but some, like “Pronunciation”, for exam lack content beneath them. A few sentences in the article contain errors, but
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Either this is unclearly written or it contains errors (perhaps both). I'll present a counterexample: In Norway, primary and secondary pupils are taught the both of the official languages, in addition to at least one other European language (Specifically, English is taught.).
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The photo in this article labeled "A German student learning French" needs to be changed drastically! It looks like the girl in the photo probably uploaded a picture of herself to show off to her friends. I would change it myself if I knew how.
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Without deciding if the error is the claim of an exception or that it it the only one, I fail to see what the difference is between the systems. Perhaps some important detail has been left out?
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most are fine. Some sections have a lot of great information, however some more reliable sources are necessary in order to make this article more scholarly.
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proficiency, budgets are tight, and it is considered a very low priority with respect to standardized tests and metrics of school performance.
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rather than a dead language, as far as I could make out. The distinction is that it still has a living descendant.
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Hmmm, maybe that distinction is wrong, anyway, there are better examples on dead/extinct languages.
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Lead para oddly conflates the two concepts which should be separate.
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Foreign language education is sometimes unavailable in the US
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