As someone that was raised bilingual I can guarantee you that what you described is usually a self made problem.
Learning a language strictly in school while speaking your native language at home is only a detriment when children don't get to interact with others after school.
So unless they spend all of their time after school at home only interacting with people in their native language the exposure to both languages should be more than enough to get a child fluent in both languages by the time they finish school.

Being fluent in a language does not require you to know it's grammatical rules. Most native speakers just subconsciously know how to form proper sentences trough enough exposure to the language.

It was full K-12 for me. Spanish required K-6. 7 you got intro to German, French, and a more structured Spanish course. Then 9-12, you were required to take Spanish, French, German, or Latin. The only year with an optional break was 8.

Given that e.g. English classes start really young in some non-English speaking countries I would not call this useless.

And the numbers arenstill very low even when you include the fact that there's children included who are in younger classes than grade 7 who only learn one language.

It's distorting because it doesn't offer any useful comparison between States. Maybe some states have a a larger percent % of K-5 students. If most students don't start a second language until grade 9, why not just use 9-12

The only places that speak Latin are courts and masses.

Mine was coffee with someone I knew in the company -> application -> phone interview -> in person interview -> job offer all in the span of 3 weeks lol

That's comforting to hear. I think snapping out in 10 mins or less is a breakthrough. Have you made friends throughout your high school years?

I'm sorry to hear about your family. This means (also according to a google search) MADD usually stems from (childhood) trauma.

I would absolutely love to see research articles! Please send them over.

Your art account is stunning! WOW. I've only seen the posts that do not require logging in (for mature-labeled content). I'll see the rest when I log in from my laptop.

Did you choose psychology because of your condition? Do you want to learn more about it? Help others? Or simply because you're coincidentally interested in psychology?

Yea they have axis to a lot of raw materials, and axis to a skilled work force.

South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan for electronics. No sane people would buy electronics made in e.g. Denmark or Switzerland.

I chose classical languages (Latin, Greek) for that reason. The practical applications of a random foreign language weren’t immensely clear, but the utility of classical languages was pretty huge in the sciences and as a backbone for future language learning.

Seeing a snakey graph like this, I can see why.

It’s included in the data tables, so yes.

It seems to me that in the case of US, teaching Spanish to children should be just as important as teaching English in many European countries.

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Utah it’s required in Jr high. But only one year.

Yeah, but English is really fucking useful.

It's the world's second language. In a fair few countries, kids already speak English before they start school because of the TV shows in English.

Things often look very different when looking at any other foreign language.

That doesn't make what I wrote untrue

Damn made in Japan so low?

Unpaid internships are slave labour and should not be accepted

LMAO thanks man. That’s kinda validating :’D

It’s impossible for me to daydream in a conversation with someone, and hard but not impossible to daydream in public settings. I’ve never had a stranger or acquaintance “catch me” daydreaming so to speak. My physical symptoms are almost nothing so I’d just look like anyone else staring off into space (other ppl with MADD may whisper to themselves, pace, require music, etc.)

It is very easy to daydream— this is something everyone does with very few exceptions. Everyone can daydream voluntarily just by imagining any scene. However, Maladaptive daydreaming is when your brain starts daydreaming to escape reality. For me, what varies is how enjoyable daydreaming is— some times I want to daydream but it just aint Hittin’, and sometimes I rly don’t want to daydream but I keep slipping. With therapy and meds, I’ve been very good at snapping myself out of daydreams and keeping myself out when I need to, for the most part. It’s rare for me to not realize I’m daydreaming any more than 10 mins in nowadays, opposed to high school when I could spend four hours straight daydreaming and not notice until I realize it’s dark outside.

I developed MADD around 9 years old during summer vacation from under stimulation and neglect since my mom was single and worked full time. Mind you, I had no clue that that playing with ur stuffed animals for entire days on end was Bad, and no one noticed. It peaked in high school when my home life became, ah, traumatizing without going into detail. Daydreamed any available moment and almost didn’t graduate. No one noticed, including myself. I just thought I was “a creative” and just a lesser capable human being lol.

MADD isn’t actually in the DSM as of yet, and has only been named and formally researched for a decade or so— barely anything compared to many other disorders. I specifically remember trying to research maladaptive daydreaming when I was like 13, but it was so under researched that I didn’t relate to it. Googled it again after graduating and noticing I was getting stuck in daydreams, and whaddya know looks like I have a mental illness after all!

You seem super interested in this. Would you like me to link you some research articles about it?

Yes, I’ve been drawing since I was about 11! Not disguised at all! Here’s my art page. I used to pursue art as a career, but decided psychology was a better choice of major. I’ve kept it as a hobby, but I haven’t been active posting or making art in a while, I’ve been so busy. My proudest piece is prob that surgery oil painting. I started taking meds around that MS paint cat meme drawing, so you can sorta see how my ability to convey space/depth develops.

> I’m pretty much of the opinion that you basically have to take immersion if you want a good grasp of a second language.

Nah. But you do need to give a shit.

The difficulty in getting English-speakers to learn another language is that learning a language well is really hard, and they're all much less useful than English.

You could use a better chart for that data.. not so beautiful i’m afraid

In Oregon it’s legally required k - high school for public schools

If you lump all students together, you get bad data. I’m in a masters program. I took foreign language in my undergraduate and I would be screwing these numbers down.

50 applications is like the bare minimum students do nowadays ngl

Your parents must have really been bullying you to put in that many applications. I was just drinking and fooling around that year of my life.