[Red6]

Again your ignorance/arrogance is apparent.

MANY MANY Americans speak and write another language. Unlike Germany where it's highly structured, many Americans speak different languages. Spanish, which you list as a language we should learn is the most taught foreign language in the US.

Just because everyone in Germany goes through a cookie cutter education system where all end up with a similar structured education learning the same things does not make it any better. In the US we have a plethora of foreign languages that are taught, unlike Germany.

In fact, this is one of our strengths in reality. In one Battalion, 1-36IN we had Arab, German, French, lots of Spanish, Polish, Russian, Korean, Italian, French, Chinese, Philippino and other languages present. We took advantage of this in Iraq. Question, if the BW deployed to the Middle East, how many Arabic speakers “organic” to the unit would you have? How many Spanish speakers would you have that you could use in Columbia in counter narcotics operations? How Many people would the BW have that can speak the languages in Africa? We use this strength to our advantage every day.

Just because every American can’t speak German, does not make foreign language unimportant in the US. But I suggest you look around once and see how many DIFFERENT languages are spoken. German speakers? Yes there are some, but not that many.

Red6

[stefan10]

my father is american so i know the situation very well.

But it is a different thing to learn a foreign language.
To learn a foreign language is simply not so important to americans as it is for europeans. You said you visited german schools then you must know the difference.

You can like it or not but facts are facts.

Sie waren es doch der behaupted hat perfekt deutsch zu sprechen ich wollte ihnen ja nur entgegen kommen.
Da sie deutsche Schulen besucht haben müssten sie die unterschiedlichen Lehrpläne ja kennen was ihren Kommentar eigentlich völlig überflüssig machte.