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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
And yet - most people in other countries learn English, even though most Americans never learn anything but.
Them thar furriners jes' mite passably be better edumacated then us'ns.
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Don't forget that English is now the international business language. (It used to be French.) The Europeans looked to that one language to teach to their children from grade school on, whereas American schools rarely did until high school, where several different languages were offered including Latin, which has since become antiquated.
It is only recently that we have some magnet schools now that focus on Spanish, and maybe one or two focus sing on French. But the reason is cultural and not out of necessity, as in having a universal language with which to do business. English is the lingua franca for international trade and business.