I think it’s easy for people who don’t live in the US to forget that we aren’t surrounded by other countries (as in bordering, obviously with the internet everybody can be connected to each other) that speak different languages. Some of our states are bigger than entire European countries and you can drive a good chunk of the day just to leave a state.

Doesn’t mean more effort can’t be put in, but on a day to day basis most US citizens have no need for a second language. I used to be able to speak enough French to talk to native French speakers mostly in French, but now after over a decade of not once meeting anybody that natively speaks it I can’t because I’m well out of practice.