[nAKMzyBN]

This is truly awesome, but the political shitstorm will be epic.

[dfuzioniag]

I approve. Get the kids fluent in a language likely to be important in the intelligence community. Awesome bit of career planning by the parents.

[estelle]

They should be teaching the kids a real language like Java or C++, not Arabic.

QFT

[SappyAppy]

I would?

[zoppereurvito]

They should be teaching the kids a real language like Java or C++, not Arabic.

Your comment about Arabic not being a real language comes off as quite bigoted. I'm actually quite surprised. Not surprised that HC agreed with it.

[bromgeksan]

Small world. My mother is one of the top comments on the NY Post article. What the ****?

[Hdzcxqoi]

Chinese has over a billion speakers, but I wouldn't call it a global language - the Chinese didn't colonize enough places for the language to be spoken much outside of China

There are a lot of people who know some level of Arabic anywhere Islam has spread which is globally.

[Discus]

Your comment about Arabic not being a real language comes off as quite bigoted. I'm actually quite surprised. Not surprised that HC agreed with it.

I think it was a joke but Lori is Jewish, right?

[Bridgester]

I think it was a joke but Lori is Jewish, right?

His use of confused me. I can usually tell when he's joking.

[addisonnicogel]

Which version of the Arabic will they learn? It's more fractured than Spanish. Actually, do kids learn metropolitan Spanish or Mexican Spanish in the US?

[defenderfors]

Which version of the Arabic will they learn? It's more fractured than Spanish. Actually, do kids learn metropolitan Spanish or Mexican Spanish in the US? Dudo que la mayoría de los americanos supieran la diferencia

[mp3 free]

"Soon, Arabic will be a global language"?

It has like 400 million speakers and is like the 4th or 5th most common language in the world. What does she mean by 'soon'?

Soon it might be relevant in the western hemisphere. Or does "global" mean "covering less than half of the globe"?

[mymnarorump]

It makes far more sense to learn Spanish or Latin, simpler languages that teach the foundation skills that are key to Arabic. This is just another attempt to stir up controversy by a bunch of tired old Jewbags in New York.

[everlastinge]

They should be teaching the kids a real language like Java or C++, not Arabic.

8.5/10

[occallExtet]

Soon it might be relevant in the western hemisphere. Or does "global" mean "covering less than half of the globe"?

Is Spanish at all relevant in the old world outside of Spain and the Philippines?

[dhrishiasv]

Is Spanish at all relevant in the old world outside of Spain and the Philippines?

If you exclude enough countries, any language is irrelevant.

[Crundaangerge]

So irrelevant in Europe, most of sub-saharan Africa, most of Asia, Oceania, and of course the entire western hemisphere is a "global language". Spanish obviously comes closer to being an actual global language. A lot of the green territory in that map is wasteland so it really isn't impressive.

[Gogogo]

It's just a fact that Spanish and French are substantially more useful than Arabic.

[BV6lwvXf]

It's just a fact that Spanish and French are substantially more useful than Arabic.

Yes, although on the margin more people who know Arabic is probably better.

[mensforyouthis]

Pu^2 is the language of the future.