YES!!! I recognized it as a Goosebumps cover instantly too! What a blast to the past, I loved those. This one is from book #4 “Say Cheese and Die!”

POV: You’re 12 years old and your family is on vacation at your extended family’s homes

Thanks for understanding! By and large I agree with you. It’s valuable to be able to communicate with 1st/2nd/3rd gen immigrants in their native language or that of their ancestors. And it’s just fact that immigration from Turkey is a part of German culture so it’s worth building up a friendship between the two countries. (As long as we don’t get into politics…) I tried to say that I know a bit of Turkish but I don’t get to use it much in my daily life ^^

biji kurdistan

thank you <3

Of course it should be optional, no one said it should be mandatory

I made the distinction because English and French were mandatory at my school in Germany. Many more languages were offered though if they had a teacher available. I remember Spanish, Italian and Chinese, I just can’t remember if Turkish was one of them.

I feel like the defensiveness of that argument is not entirely accidental.

My family is Kurdish, so I admit that maybe there’s a subconscious bias when learning Turkish comes up, if you know anything about the situation in Turkey and Kurdistan 🙂

as if learning french in school would be relevant to the migration of germans to france.

French skills are extremely valuable to Germans who want to work in Switzerland or Luxembourg

Btw, ben de biraz türkçe biliyorum, ama çok konuşmiyorum… in my daily life 😅 Dunno how to say that last part

English and French are world languages and open up job opportunities. Turkish is only spoken in Turkey, it isn’t interesting economically and immigration from Turkey to Germany is a one-way street. If you want to learn Turkish that’s cool, but it is and should be optional at school.

Je parle les deux et je te confirme tu ne manques rien

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