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Katie Green (0:00)
This is an iHeart podcast.
Jack Armstrong (0:06)
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at.
Commercial Announcer (0:10)
The George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Joe Getty (0:14)
Armstrong and Getty.
Jack Armstrong (0:16)
And now here's Armstrong and Getty.
Joe Getty (0:28)
Who. We are Navy.
Jack Armstrong (0:39)
Generations of sailors have kept America free. Your strength, bravery and sacrifice inspires us all. That was Melania Trump addressing a whole bunch of naval cadets there. Pretty cool little scene. Her accent is funny. Foreigners are funny, aren't they? Oh, man.
Joe Getty (1:00)
Oh please. The way they talk. Funny. Why doesn't anybody teach him how to talk in those foreign countries?
Jack Armstrong (1:05)
Oh, that reminds me. That reminds me. So this came up. My son has to take Spanish where he goes to high school. It's common thing. I, I somehow, thank God managed to get through high school and a college degree without ever having to take a foreign language. Thank God because I'm not good at it. But he, he, he's had, this is like his second or third year Spanish or whatever and he can hardly speak any Spanish and he was talking about how his best friend can speak even less than him. And he's had another year, one more year of Spence. Almost everybody I know in my life who's taken Spanish particularly, but practically any foreign language knows almost none of it. Yeah, that we got to give up on that idea.
Joe Getty (1:44)
Whoever thought that originally maybe they were.
Jack Armstrong (1:45)
Well intentioned with the Spanish thing. I don't think it's well intentioned. I think it's a caving to our immigration policies that we need to accept that we're a dual lingual. No, we don't. No, we do not have to accept that we're a bilingual country. We're not. It's in the law, but people don't learn it. Replace that class with something else, an extra science class or recess or something. But it's a complete waste of time.
Joe Getty (2:09)
I'm not as bitter and cynical as you. I wish I'd been able to learn a second language just because it's interesting. But if we're going to continue doing it, do it in first grade, first, second, third grade when the kids in even like kindergarten. Although it'll be done for politically correct reasons and you know, whatever for. Like you said, we gotta. We're a dual. You know what was interesting in Britain that's got a huge immigration population causing plenty of problems, but is a very. London's a very international city. Everything's in English period. Nothing else anywhere interesting. English official signage, you know, in some of the Muslim parts of town it's in Arabic and stuff like that. But anyway, you got to do it when kids. Brains are. Plastic is the correct term when they can learn so much more quickly. I've talked about how I studied German for years and I'd like to think I have a reasonable grasp of the English language, but it could not. I just couldn't break through. It's too hard as an adult.