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LivingGhost371 t1_j9f8w8l wrote

If it's like my experience taking four years of French in high school, no one, not the teachers, not the parents, and not the students, were under the delusion that we'd be sitting down in a French cafe having in-depth conversations with the locals, or even that we'd find it useful in general. You could pass the class and check if off on your college application if you could write down that "bathroom" = "la salle des bain" on a test with being nowhere actually fluent.

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FoldyHole t1_j9fmj99 wrote

I learned more Spanish working construction in Texas than I did in 4 years of classes.

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