In short: By the time a person is 18, they must effectively be able to communicate and understand conversationally in 2 languages and casually use them in daily life..., if not become completely fluent...

Other than that, any language goes (whether it is a locally-known one, or a popular one worldwide),

The only thing I hope to gain from this, is to rid the world of /Monolingual Betas/

Seriously though, has this been a policy before? Because I haven't heard of such one...

I think this can especially be used for citizenship...

Edit: I don't necessarily have any other presupposed requirements besides bilingualism, though we may have certain notions of such in this main goal

Edit II: In furthering this venture, I have realized that my liberalism may slightly poisoned my lens....

And for clarification...

Minimum dual language system:

Main national language + other language (likely another related language, but foreign ones are fine)

  • ratboy [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    I wish, I feel so inadequate being an American who only knows one language comparing myself to...Almost every other country in the world lol. If I ever have a kid I would insist that they start school taking language immersion classes if it were available

    • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      Something something, I remembered a Latino joke how if a "Multilingual" refers to someone who speaks 3 or more languages, then "American" refers to someone who can only speak one...

      • ratboy [they/them]
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        edit-2
        1 year ago

        Man, us Americans get owned so hard by people in other countries when it comes to roasting. I've heard that in Europe people will threaten to sue eachother as a joke on Americans lol.