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I quit school early and attended the University of Billiards, Poker and Pool from which Lindrum and I graduated cum laude. So, after my comment about Arabic may I link to Victoria’s work :

(The wisdom of the Bahá’í principle is not solely based on the fact that powerful languages come and go with the flow of history. For example, the Australian government in its recent and easily Googled 700 page White Paper outlining policy toward 2025 – Australia in the Asian Century (chapter 6.2) – calls on the nation’s schools to start emphasizing Bahasa Indonesian, Hindi, Japanese and Mandarin which are to receive “government funding of foundation courses in [these four] priority Asian languages.” “All Australian students will have the opportunity, and be encouraged, to undertake a continuous course of study in an Asian language…All students will have access to at least one priority Asian language…” Though not stated directly the policy paper implies, by recommending Asian languages for Aussie kids, that English is hardly the lingua franca fait accompli for the whole of Asia as opined in some circles. That Arabic’s widespread usage here & in Asia is not cited among other Asian languages worthy of Australian government financial support indicates too that more consultation may follow

All anglo countries amount to a failure to communicate re bilingualism

Although English is currently the international language of aeronautical and marine navigation and communication, numerous fatal accidents testify to its dialectal variation and the extreme difficulty to both learn and retain it. For example, we Aussies aint known for our pronunciation of English, thus creating minor problems for American and British visitors. Imagine a Pakistani pilot guided by a Scottish air traffic controller to land his stricken aircraft. Yet, all these nationalities have English as an official language – for centuries.

Which bilingualism is the ?

It’s the Germanic influences in English & the Stalag movies I loved as a kid that enamor me to its manly guttural cadences. That our 2 boys study Italian at a Montessori school is no a load to carry either -.in our privileged status. Latin & French studies enhance my meagre knowledge of Shakespeare’s choice. As mum and dad traveled around a lot a lack of continuity re language tuition reared its ugly head even when we stabilized in 1 locality and attended 1 large school whose policy on language changed with the availability of language teachers. For most kids here in average church & state schools it really matters not which language is taught as long as continuity is there which hopefully leads one day to agreement on selection of a universal auxiliary tongue, perhaps English or Mandarin, alas, not German or Italian.