Another useful point from this book: fluency in a 2nd language can be highly valuable, but with rapidly-evolving auto-translation apps, anything short of fluency really isn't. How many kids must take language courses to graduate? How many become fluent?https://www.amazon.com/Most-Likely-Succeed-Preparing-Innovation/dp/1501104322 …
Yeah, it's not that it's impossible to learn a foreign language without immersion, it's that it's nearly impossible to maintain if you're not confronting a consistent need to apply it... true of most everything learned via rote memorization.
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Even my first language deteriorates because I use English too much.
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