Every German child learns to speak English in school.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.
Sadly, my German is almost non-existent, although I did a little at school.
I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I went to school, I had a lot of classes in English.
There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse pride in not understanding mathematics, so we have taken a perverse pride in the fact that we do not speak foreign languages, and we just need to speak louder in English.
Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language.
Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.
The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.
My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.