Some Americans are averse to learning other languages, so I was wondering what traditional Americans learned, or if they knew more than English. You say only the upper class? https://twitter.com/SelimSeesYou/status/1014021405518675973 …
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Replying to @AR_Maximum
Basically yea. I’m not familiar w/ lower class foreign language study throughout US history. I know the rich did French & German (typically) to signal their pedigree. I believe the founders frequently knew one or both. FDR had a separate governess to teach him each.
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Replying to @SelimSeesYou @AR_Maximum
The greater Roosevelt (Teddy) likewise: read books in both French & German tho apparently his German pronunciation when speaking was comically poor.
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