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Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Lordling Send a noteboard - 24/09/2010 02:14:52 PM
1) Which languages did you learn in school, and for how long?

Finnish for 12 years (well, I'm on the 12th year now)
English: nine years
Swedish: five years
German: four years

I'd like to add another language to the list some day, too. Estonian might be nice. Actually, I'd love to learn Icelandic because it seems so awesome, but that's probably not realistic. We'll see.

2) Which languages would you say you speak with some degree of fluency?


I can read a newspaper in Swedish and I think I have a pretty good accent, but that's the extent of my ability. My German is about the same. I have no real problems with English.

3) Do you think languages get too much attention in the school system you went to, too little, or just about enough?

Well, English is a must. We have mandatory Swedish, which doesn't make too much sense but I'm okay with it. I think the national curriculum was changed so that Swedish will begin to be taught to even younger pupils and some people are wishing that the people who live in the east could switch Swedish to Russian, since it would serve them better.

4) What do you think of the remarkable dominance of English that appears in the data?

Remarkable?
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/Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Legolas - 24/09/2010 01:37:42 PM 1469 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Floffe - 24/09/2010 01:49:32 PM 864 Views
Answering the survey myself... Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:04:39 PM 894 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Camilla - 24/09/2010 02:10:57 PM 876 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:20:45 PM 1012 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Camilla - 24/09/2010 02:24:01 PM 876 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Lordling - 24/09/2010 02:14:52 PM 917 Views
We have a similar situation in Belgium. Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:32:25 PM 793 Views
It is all double dutch to me snoopcester - 24/09/2010 02:41:41 PM 851 Views
Hah! Camilla - 24/09/2010 06:58:49 PM 953 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Mark - 24/09/2010 03:32:09 PM 810 Views
That is rather sad to say the least. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:15:32 PM 1038 Views
Indeed Mark - 24/09/2010 06:23:52 PM 852 Views
That's just Paris being a city of nasty people. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:32:40 PM 994 Views
I never noticed that Camilla - 24/09/2010 07:05:18 PM 900 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe jh - 24/09/2010 04:00:04 PM 927 Views
I didn't mean just in Sweden, or Scandinavia. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:19:32 PM 926 Views
Well... jh - 24/09/2010 10:50:09 PM 834 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 05:47:09 PM 924 Views
Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:04:30 PM 847 Views
Re: Interesting. BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 06:42:02 PM 998 Views
Re: Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 07:05:44 PM 902 Views
Re: Interesting. BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 07:21:24 PM 1008 Views
Re: Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 08:18:30 PM 882 Views
Re: Interesting. everynametaken - 25/09/2010 08:02:30 PM 938 Views
American who just got a C+ on a French quiz reporting in. Ghavrel - 24/09/2010 06:09:31 PM 942 Views
What was it on? Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:22:35 PM 854 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Macharius - 24/09/2010 06:16:22 PM 823 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) The_Muted_Grimaud - 24/09/2010 09:38:05 PM 993 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) beckstcw - 25/09/2010 05:49:05 AM 1000 Views
Real quick ironclad - 25/09/2010 12:03:51 PM 959 Views
Self-study can be worth as much as formal classroom study, I suppose Larry - 25/09/2010 03:43:14 PM 946 Views
Certainly it can. Legolas - 26/09/2010 12:35:56 PM 959 Views
You know, gen eds typically include a language. *NM* Ghavrel - 26/09/2010 07:28:57 PM 381 Views
Yes, but other things as well. Legolas - 26/09/2010 08:08:20 PM 877 Views
Interesting Larry - 27/09/2010 03:14:00 AM 1072 Views
Re: Interesting Legolas - 27/09/2010 11:04:37 AM 975 Views
You don't have to prove it's economically valid? Ghavrel - 27/09/2010 08:31:46 PM 980 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) (beat.) - 25/09/2010 04:54:40 PM 1087 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) everynametaken - 25/09/2010 07:38:29 PM 1012 Views
The amount of German is more surprising. Joel - 25/09/2010 07:55:29 PM 771 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Morgawse - 26/09/2010 12:07:19 AM 1039 Views
They should have asked about second languages rather than foreign languages. Tim - 26/09/2010 11:34:27 AM 886 Views
Aye, they should have. Legolas - 26/09/2010 12:26:51 PM 978 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Stephen - 27/09/2010 03:18:30 PM 936 Views
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