[nickpeterson]

I think it would be especially difficult with children, since the English version tends to be the 'real' version. As such I would assume songs to just be more natural in english, and that tends to be the part children obsess over. I'm from the US, so I have the same problem from the other perspective, "Why learn a language when everyone speaks English." So you get a bunch of children who don't want to become bilingual since it serves no apparent value in their lives.

It doesn't help that schools basically only push Spanish, which is actively besieged by half the population. I really wish schools would push things like mandarin and german more since it's a much larger part of the world economy.

[irrational]

I would love it if American public schools offered a wider variety of languages (my high school in south florida offered Latin in addition to Spanish, German, French, and Italian). But my children's high school in Oregon only offers Spanish. There is 1 German teacher in the entire school district, but she is in a different high school.

[spraak]

I'm not sure that I understand what you're saying, but for my child they see the Swedish version as the real version, firstly because it's the only version they've seen, and that often most of the shows are actually only available in Swedish.

[meheleventyone]

Isn’t Spanish a globally important language as well?

[icebraining]

In number of speakers it is, but parent talked about the economy, and Germany alone has a GDP of almost 70% of all the nations with Spanish as their official language combined.