hyacinthsayearago said: because learning other languages changes the way we view our own! lots of people take languages as a supplement to english, the french they taught us in primary school wouldn’t be useful in france anyway (really incorrect grammar etc).
yeah but in year 7 we learned japanese (and now they’re doing chinese) which i guess is useful in real life? but they have basically no relation to english
also the connection of french to english was never something that was emphasised? i would have found that interesting actually but nope
i was more thinking of how like even today the majority of history and culture we get taught is white people history even though there are these people who have been living here for so much longer and like we could probably connect to their culture more if we could say some words in it? like i know zero ngannawal (no idea how to spell that) words even though those people lived here for basically forever
also it would probably make it a lot easier for aboriginal kids if english wasn’t their first language (and somewhere i read i think it said that people express themselves through their language and taking away someone’s language is an a+ way of oppressing them and if non-indigenous people could understand even a few words rather than indigenous people being expected to speak perfect english it might make things more equal, idk)