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What's one thing you wish you had learned in school?

Maybe it's not your traditional math, science, social studies, or arts and humanities class--maybe it's something different. If you could learn one lesson in school, what would it be?

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    Thomas Jones 100+

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    Nov 2 2011: Mandarin.
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      Joey Yeon-Joo Sung 500+

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      Nov 2 2011: Yes. I strongly agree.

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      Nov 2 2011: 5-10 years later your answer might be Tamil or Bahasa Indonesia.

      I do agree that it's easier to learn Mandarin while you were young (it's my first language) because it's a lot harder to memorize the 5000 + Chinese characters years after you have been trained to process languages in 26 characters.

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