America does encourage learning another language. Why do you think there's so many American schools that require people to take a language class? Where I'm from, elementary school students have to take Spanish and it goes from there all the way to middle school until they can decide what language they wanna take -- they have four choices which are Spanish, French, German and Italian. In a town next to us, they teach Latin and Japanese in addition to those choices.

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