Hmm, recently I heard my 11 years old daughter chat with someone online in English. I certainly couldn’t do that at her age. So yeah, maybe the situation is mostly fixing itself, it just needs a decade or two more.
I was using a heuristics “young people learn English today just like my parents’ generation learned Russian… but most of them couldn’t actually speak Russian”, but I guess there is a difference that my parents’ generation mostly had ~0 opportunity and incentive to practice Russian after school, while the kids these day have the internet at hand. The practice makes a lot of difference!
Hmm, recently I heard my 11 years old daughter chat with someone online in English. I certainly couldn’t do that at her age. So yeah, maybe the situation is mostly fixing itself, it just needs a decade or two more.
I was using a heuristics “young people learn English today just like my parents’ generation learned Russian… but most of them couldn’t actually speak Russian”, but I guess there is a difference that my parents’ generation mostly had ~0 opportunity and incentive to practice Russian after school, while the kids these day have the internet at hand. The practice makes a lot of difference!