While becoming fluent in a second language might be justified purely on the cognitive benefits, I question teaching such a relatively insular language such as Japanese, which has very few practical applications, and I say that as somebody who has been attempting to learn the language for well over a year. My motive is very specific, as it relates to consuming Japanese products without locatlization, but I fail to see what benefits Japanese has for the ordinary person who wouldn't have admittedly obscure interests. I think languages such as Spanish, German, French, or even Chinese would be preferable.
If this were a foreign school, or rather, a school in a country in which the most popular language was not English, I would very much approve of schools in which there was a pressure towards fluency in English, which I am certain are legion. If anything, natural English speakers should be envious of the rest of the world, which has a compelling reason to learn another language.
australia might be taking the economic war to the classroom, esp. if there are mandarin ones too
Eli Martinez
clearly the principal is a weeaboo and wants his kids to speak japanese when he diddles them just like in hentai
Ian Reyes
It is obvious that he desires a Loli Harem
Dylan Gonzalez
wtf
Jeremiah Hughes
Are their accents shit tier?
Joshua Morales
I think they are very cute desu (*^ω^*) 彼らはとっても可愛いと思います Thanks, Aussie cute princesses ありがとう、オージの可愛い姫様たち
Jonathan Bailey
>australia might be taking the economic war to the classroom, esp. Maybe if this was made like thirty years ago, when people thought Japan was going to dominate the whole world. Mandarin would be better. Again, leaning a second language might be justified purely because of the cognitive benefits, but I would be surprised if Japanese, for English speakers, would be ideal in that respect, or there wasn't a more practical language or skill that could be taught instead.
Ryder Fisher
Yes
Jayden Moore
You're probably right, I just thought they might have lots of competing interests with Japan too
Jaxson Richardson
>teaching a useless shitty language Literally for what purpose?
Oh yeah, it makes sense now. Teaching lolis Japanese so they sound like his animes, and the best part is they're cute wh*te lolis instead of ugly chinkoid yellow lolis. The man is living the weeaboo dream.
Brandon Parker
Do you speak Japanese aswell Finnish-Bro
Nathaniel Perry
Okay. That they're literally better than 99% of weebs that dabble in Japanese and actually have some reason to learn it, (even if it's shitty one, but better than what these kids have, which is no good reason aside from being bilingual). I say that as a weeb trying to learn Japanese, (I imagine I'm so unique for this board), but am not trying to learn to write or speak it.
James Johnson
>Literally for what purpose? For the benefits of bilingualism. I would hope for every school that tries this teaching this fairly difficult and fairly useless language, there's dozens in Japan, or across the world teaching English in the exact same manner, which would be very useful and very practical.
Parker Lee
>and the best part is they're cute wh*te lolis instead of ugly chinkoid yellow lolis. The man is living the weeaboo dream. >kek I too find asian women unattractive.
Tyler Russell
Kinda jelly I wish I went to a primary school that taught in exotic gibberish. Literally a free +1 to languages known.
Isaiah Murphy
Australia and New Zealand rely on Japan as one of its biggest trading partners. there is lots of business done between these countries, much more than Japan/US or Japan/EU comparatively. its like americans learning spanish or canadians learning french. there is an economic and social justification for this. mandarin is the only other language that would make sense as a secondary language for these children.
Grayson Cooper
Hmm. I would say since you're Polish, (i.e., living in a country where your first language was probably not English), that you would be better off going to a school that had this exact program or gimmick, but it was for English. However, from my experience of visiting your country, you Poles know English so well, I wonder if it would be much of a benefit. I would still say, "Yes," and that being more experienced in a language you should probably already know because of your place of birth is better than becoming fluent to Japanese, which is useful to just about nobody unless you're a weeb or Japanese.
Carter Perez
>Australia and New Zealand rely on Japan as one of its biggest trading partners. I was not aware. >like americans learning spanish Really not that useful unless you live in South Florida, South California, New Mexico, etc. It's probably the most practical language for Americans generally, which means, for better or worse, Americans generally don't have a practical reason to learn another language.
John Evans
okay tier I can't listen to some words they speak
Ayden Reed
It's kind of funny that they speak pretty naturally and without pauses, but their accent is sooo heavy, especially the vowels
ロリコン乙
Alexander Thomas
bump
Charles Collins
(((they))) are teaching kids how to speak that language so it can make it easier for them to move there. if there's great influx of those people then (((they))) will be able to infiltrate that nation among that human traffic without causing any suspicion.
No they have to learn english It just makes things simpler Why does every one have to learn Spanish when english is already the international language That allows you to speak to almost anyone living in the usa Just becuase they are to lazy to learn
Kevin Fisher
they're basically condemning them to a life as unbearable weaboos how terrible
Julian Long
Only use is to read Japanese and translate media
James Jones
I think children should learn a second language, if only for the benefits mentioned in the video. Again, it's unfortunate that native English speakers generally don't have the practical benefits of learning a second language that ESL speakers do.
Adrian Adams
>only use of a language is to read it and understand products where it's used Another 200 IQ post by an American.
Ethan Thompson
> make video about white girls speaking Japanese > include only 30 seconds of white girls speaking Japanese
Easton Long
Um... I'm going to double down and say that's true, retard. There are cognitive benefits to leaning a second language, but learning Japanese, at least in America, is totally fucking useless unless you're a weeb. Spanish would be much, much more useful.
Isaiah Cooper
> unless you're a weeb a lot of people are weebs though. almost everyone likes anime, even if it's Pokemon-tier
Alexander Williams
Dude, I'm learning this shit myself because I'm a weeb. I'm OP and I really like the idea of a school forcing kids to be bilingual. I still extremely question the idea of forcing all these Australian children to learn what is such a practically useless language, at least in America. Somebody mentioned Japan being a strong trading partner. That might be reason enough. I doubt it, but it could be. >almost everyone likes anime, even if it's Pokemon-tier Almost speaks to the pathetic nature of the rest of the world's cultural output if there's really only two languages to learn to consume the best content unlocalized: English and Japanese. The best operas and novels used to be composed in French, Italian, German, and Russian. Now, unless you're some faggot cinephile, which is arguably even more pathetic than being a weeb, there's no reason to learn any of those languages for the cultural output. Anyway, I think you immensely overstate how much people care about anime. I think like 40% think it's weird shit, the other 30% will say they think Spirited Away was a pretty good movie, (and maybe that dogshit Your Name, or whatver). 10% will watch anime to any large degree, and a small fraction of that will even seriously consider learning Japanese. I've pulled these statistics from my ass, but it's consistent with my experience.
Thomas Richardson
I'm also studying japanese because I'll move out to Tokyo in a few months, but teaching japanese in schools is pointless. I'll grant them than teaching a second language is great, but why not something more useful? I even know a japanese school in Buenos Aires where japanese is an extracurricular activity. Such niche language shouldn't be taught in schools.
Jace Foster
Japan falls into the American sphere, alongside Australia and others, it forms a containment veil against China. Japan is an important trading partner. Thus, Japanese, amongst others, has priority.
Indonesian is also on that list due to its economic and geographic relevance to us. The usual European languages are still taught, but the reasoning is different.
David Hall
Agreed. I can't see the justification for teaching Japanese in a Latin American country, unless the diaspora is extremely high, which it apparently is, or higher than what one might expect, but I doubt it's so high it justifies teaching the language like this. Like I said before, I hope for every school like this, there's dozens across the world teaching English in the exact same manner, which would be very useful and very practical.
Sebastian Sullivan
>Japan is an important trading partner. Okay, but if a large portion of the students don't end up using Japanese on a practical basis, the intent was a ill-conceived.
