THE ARMY interesting poll #20

[Juan_Bottom]

As Spock once said "we fear what we do not know; the only way to eliminate our fear is to expand our knowledge."

Now I'm unafraid of Estonia.

[Serbia]

History is fun.

[Fircoal]

You're American, why would you even wanna know where Estonia is. You know their capitals as well (I do, but I was forced)? No offense to any Estonians, but I could drive to that country today and it wouldn't make me or any Estonians happier persons.

I once had a friend (who's a bitch) on the net that used to live in Estonia.

[Fircoal]

I can't pick! I'm good at almost all subjects, except foreign languages I epically suck at those.

[mviola]

You're American, why would you even wanna know where Estonia is. You know their capitals as well (I do, but I was forced)? No offense to any Estonians, but I could drive to that country today and it wouldn't make me or any Estonians happier persons.
I don't see the value in knowing all these countries. You can show these kids CC and they'll know the world in no time. Learning languages is okay, you can actually use that.

Perhaps I'm biased, since my best subjects were clearly French, German and English. I wonder if the OP will change the poll. American do have the opportunity to learn these languages as well, right?

- JBlombier

My school has German, French, Spanish, and Japanese. I doubt many public schools of my size (<1200) have other languages than that. I have heard of Chinese, and Latin in private schools, but I don't think they are common. Chinese may be on the rise though, but again I don't know.

My high school had Italian, because my town is majority Italian. It's a school of about 900.