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what country do you live in and what language was taught in your school? (thelemmy.club)

submitted 4 months ago by may_be@thelemmy.club to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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i'm in the usa and my school has german, spanish and french. i'm taking spanish all 4 years of high school and german starting this autumn.

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[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

India - local language, English and Hindi

(Language is a controversial issue in India, and the present situation is more a political compromise than what's most useful, with many rules and exceptions, and some states / schools simply ignoring the whole compromise altogether.)

[–] cactus_head@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I lived in India(in what at the time, was called Hyderabad) for a while, as a foreign Arab. Most of the curriculum was in English, with both Telugu(the official language) and Hindu language subjects. I hated it.

Coming from an Arab country where the most English we were taught was the ABCs, and then being told I had to juggle 3 entirely new language. I wasn't even exempt from it. I would alternative from getting 61 out 75 in a hindui exam to falling the class, depending on if the teacher let's me cheat.

I couldn't even tell you what letters I was writing, I just drew them as a I saw them. My dad even forced me to watch Hindi cartoons in the hopes I will magically pick it up. For a while, I even had a Telugu teacher teaching me the alphabets. None of it stuck.

Honestly that period of my life was really damaging. I left India with full English and not a hint of Arabic. Coming back to the Arab world, to even get to the point of conversing with people again took years, and I still don't know how to read or write beyond a first graders level. Reading still gives me a headache.

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's a political compromise. Not what's best for the students. At most the school could have offered you Urdu instead of Hindi, since it uses a modified Arabic script and has a few Arabic words.

It's still 'Hyderabad', by the way! Thankfully the religious nutcases haven't won elections in that state.

[–] cactus_head@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

At most the school could have offered you Urdu instead of Hindi

You know, I never thought of it that way, probably would have made the transition back to Arabic easier too, when I moved back to my country.