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Originally Posted by you&me
Not trying to be an #######, but do you think Joe Public has any genuine interest in putting any meaningful level of effort into this? If so, you have more faith in the general population than I do. Heck, the majority of English Canadians take full French classes for the majority of their schooling and can't string together a few words, let alone reasonably pronounce most words. Do you really expect what sounds like it would amount to a unit in social studies to have any lasting impression on the broader population?
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I don't think your average adult would take much interest at all. I'm sure a bunch of adults would push back against it too. That said, if there's more and more public place names around that use local languages and kids in school learn enough to be able to pronounce those pretty correctly on a regular basis, I don’t see that as too tough for an education system to achieve over a generation or two.