I think every country needs to have a mandatory bilingual policy (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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In short: By the time a person is 18, they must effectively be able to communicate and understand conversationally in 2 languages and casually use them in daily life..., if not become completely fluent...

Other than that, any language goes (whether it is a locally-known one, or a popular one worldwide),

The only thing I hope to gain from this, is to rid the world of /Monolingual Betas/

Seriously though, has this been a policy before? Because I haven't heard of such one...

I think this can especially be used for citizenship...

Edit: I don't necessarily have any other presupposed requirements besides bilingualism, though we may have certain notions of such in this main goal

Edit II: In furthering this venture, I have realized that my liberalism may slightly poisoned my lens....

And for clarification...

Minimum dual language system:

Main national language + other language (likely another related language, but foreign ones are fine)

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[-] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Spanish and Mandarin only.

We can make exceptions given the proper forms, but absolutely no English under any circumstances.

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Salamat sa Dios, dahil aking wikang hiniram ilang mga salita sa Espanyol...

Hirap pa though, ganyan siguro bakit ako gamitin Tagles (Taglish)... maraming beses...

Pero sinubukan ako, anuman yan, hindi ba?

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

I can't interpret what you're saying without a translator except for 4-6 words, but I recognize enough to conclude that it is very normal for someone saying that to have the idea/worldview/assumptions/values expressed in the OP.

But I mean that in a positive light.

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, my Tagalog's been a bit rusty...

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

If you speak or write Tagalog then you are familiar with being in a country that has multiple regional languages, so being multilingual is quite normal for you.

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

The thing is I'm a migrant to UAE, so I haven't been as exposed as much to it... let alone the other languages.... but it's familiar to me via my parents...