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Re:Esperanto is finding new life online by panglott on Friday May 29, 2015 @07:54PM (#9628244)
Certainly it is much more valuable to teach kids language early on, beginning in primary school. Dual immersion schools seem to be very successful at teaching bilingualism. The problem is that in the US, the status quo is instead minimal classroom language education very late.

Arguably, you could say that about many bodies of knowledge as much as Latin. The question is really: What percentage of people take that mandatory one year minimum of high school language and really build it into something valuable? I think it's pretty low. And,

bad German < bad Latin < good Latin < good German

U.S. school systems generally are simply unwilling to invest the resources needed to get kids really bilingual.

Re:Esperanto is finding new life online by ajkjk on Friday May 29, 2015 @10:13PM (#9628584)
That's fair. I think I agree with your ordering. Our language education really is abysmal. Only Spanish really has a good chance of catching on outside of the classroom since it is gaining prominence in American culture (in my observation).

I do think that if all language programs are bad at a school then bad-Spanish would still have a higher utility than bad-Latin.