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minus-square@DempstersBoxlinkEnglish3•4 months agoWell for starters, kids aren’t going to whinge about it- they’re just going to use it, generally correctly for their setting. Headlines when a royal family kid is bilingual, every day regular-ass survival when a poor border town kid does it, unprompted. I mean, the royal kids totally would of got it on their own, right?
minus-square@captainlezbianlinkEnglish1•4 months agoAren’t royals supposed to be bilingual? Like, that’s part of their job
minus-square@DempstersBoxlinkEnglish1•4 months agoThere was one royal kid-a girl- who learned spanish. It made headlines. I assume her accent is so bad as to be largely unintelligible to most spanish speaking folks. They have translators. Border kids learn both on their own or they starve
Well for starters, kids aren’t going to whinge about it- they’re just going to use it, generally correctly for their setting.
Headlines when a royal family kid is bilingual, every day regular-ass survival when a poor border town kid does it, unprompted.
I mean, the royal kids totally would of got it on their own, right?
Aren’t royals supposed to be bilingual? Like, that’s part of their job
There was one royal kid-a girl- who learned spanish.
It made headlines.
I assume her accent is so bad as to be largely unintelligible to most spanish speaking folks.
They have translators.
Border kids learn both on their own or they starve