Foreign Languages Taught in US Public Schools

[JohnRM]

Elective or required? I don't think any foreign language should be required.

As electives, the standard group should be Spanish, Chinese, and Hindi, as these are three most useful languages as a composite of usefulness in business and those using the language in the United States.

Additional languages should be chosen based on local inclinations combined with adequate consideration of the above standard. I think, however, that five languages would be too many for the majority of school districts in the United States. Three might be pushing it, as well.

[JohnRM]

As electives, the standard group should be Spanish, Chinese, and Hindi, as these are three most useful languages as a composite of usefulness in business and those using the language in the United States.

Nobody conducts business in Hindi.

Really? I would have thought that it was rather common. I suppose I stand corrected.