That sounds more similar to the situation in Canada. Personally though, I learned Italian as someone without any strong family connection. What I liked when teaching it was the variety of reasons: family, vacations, opera singers... and rarely anything practical

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I mean I'll always have a low opinion of GWB and I don't think anyone on the left/Democratic is trying to "rehabilitate" him, but I'll always think even less of him in light of how the Cheney family found the guts to stand up against Trump and Bush can't manage to endorse against Paxton!

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Um, not so much. There can be an issue with Italian heritage speakers not realizing that nonna spoke dialect And in the US (less so with Canada), the ethnic Italian Americans often don't often have a relative who is a native speaker since immigration peaked by the 20s

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Suspect box-ticking is becoming progressively more common as automated translation improves; it's still not good enough for quality translation but can get you through a social interaction or let you roughly read a newspaper.

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And the class was full of anime fans with the closest we got to box tickers being Chinese exchange students who already knew kanji from Chinese, who the professors required to write the correct pronunciation of any kanji they used we hadn't covered in class.

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