What’s the point studying six years of Spanish and not being able to speak it?

[Bugenhagen]

I don’t believe it. If one spends 1-2 years on foreign language studies, he/she can understand and read/write at minimum.

You know the US is a country where there is such a thing as a "competitive mullet".

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66689279

She is likely the mother of a monolingual.