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French people could claim the same.
laughs in American living in Germany
Du
Du hast.
Du hast mich.
Duh nuh nuh, duh nuh nuh!
I just block it. No big deal. There’s no point in having it show up on my feed when I can’t fucking read it lol
Weird downvote people.
I agree with you - just block and move on. This is Lemmy, a land without capitalist social media algorithms filtering our newsfeeds for us. Nobody’s monitoring your preferences and automatically curating your main page to
manipulate“entertain” you. The block feature is one way we can take control over the information presented to us, and using it to filter for language simply makes sense.And before anyone chimes in with “jUsT cHaNgE YoUr sEtTiNgS tO eNgLiSh,” some of us are multi-lingual in other languages and don’t want to be limited to only English content - we just don’t speak German, specifically.
This meme couldn’t have been made by a German. Nobody in their right mind would say something so outlandish as Germany having a great education system. I literally got taught with a smashed blackboard, next to a cabinet that collapsed during class and with “books” that began identifying as a stack of papers (still had to wrap them though for protection! …somehow!).
On the upside, my school didn’t have mold… that we knew off. And we constantly had classes canceled since there weren’t enough teachers once a single one was missing.
And you still learned more than most Americans. Except maybe Cheerleading, American Football, how to behave during a school shooting, and bullying (or how survive it).
I learned English because in 2006-2010 most video games were poorly localized and when youtube became a thing most of the popular German gaming youtubers were absolute cringe so i watched English channels instead.
Compared to my German friends my English is above average despite my English teacher in highschool being sick most of the time and the classes not being substituted with English classes. This solely lies in my interest/necessity to engage with English content online. We had French as a second language and despite the teachers actually being there and being good teachers for this educational system, i remember almost nothing.
and bullying (or how survive it).
My over a decade long therapeutic history, scars and damage to sensory organs say differently. You’re right about the shootings though. Since the bullying at my schools was so bad I can guarantee there would have been at least one shooting if it was in the US. Back then I would’ve probably celebrated the idea even, I was saddened when an actual shooting happened somewhere because it wasn’t at my school, but specifically not because it was a shooting (just to give you an idea how bad the bullying was).
Heard the US schools got a really weird sports team thingy going. Never fully got that; there’s no comparable culture over here. Of course schools love to work with Sports Clubs whenever possible, they’re not “the same” though (and it’s about the sport itself, very rarely the Clubs’ identity). There definitely aren’t state- or nationwide sport tournaments organized around school teams in the same fashion the US celebrates it.
It could be worse but “hervorragend” is pushing it.
It can both be bad and hervorragend. All the other ones just have to be worse.
That, and OP quoted Rammstein
Certainly has nothing to do with anything that happened before 1946
Just good education
Do you imply that ancestors building concentration camps is somehow boosting education?
…so Trump’s decisions actually are long-term educational policy? Little genocide today, big brains tomorrow? 🧐
Lest we not forget the US’s internment campus for Japanese during WW2 (not the worst of our ill deeds, but still heinous)
Ah whataboutism. How refreshing. We don’t get this much any more since the US elections are over.
I am implying that losing a world war and subsequent occupation to English speaking nations has a residual lasting effect
Likewise had it gone the other way there would certainly be more Americans with German as a second language
Education isn’t particularly relevant in this situation
Even my tiny rural American school offered French, German, and Spanish
If they choose,. most choose to learn Spanish or French since those are the languages we are likely to encounter on either border. Very few Americans speak German because how infrequently we encounter anyone who does here.
Though, even more choose not to learn a foreign language at all
You’re not completely wrong, as many in East Germany learnt russian. However, West Germans were (and all Germans nowadays are) able to choose their foreign languages as well. English is just the default, but I had a nerd in my class who chose Latin for first language. Schools usually offer at least three choices for first and second foreign languages.
Latin as first (second) language sounds so phenomenally weird to me. How late in school did you start learning? For me it was third grade in primary school, I can still remember that first sheet with pictures of “tree” and “umbrella” as it felt so alien to me for things to suddenly be called differently.
There was a choice for second (third) language in sixth class, I chose Latin there as well (there were only 2 choices, Latin and French). Unfortunately had to change school 2 years later and they only had French, so now I can’t speak either. 🥴
English however never was optional (your post make it sound like it was for you, pretty sure no state does it that way though…?). In fact for all I know it’s one of the primary classes everywhere in Germany, together with German and math.
We started it in the 5th year. It was mandatory to learn a foreign language and English was default. The guy who took Latin had to specificly request it. Everyone else didn’t have to do anything and ended up in English lessons.
