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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 1348 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Floffe - 24/09/2010 01:49:32 PM 757 Views
Answering the survey myself... Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:04:39 PM 771 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Camilla - 24/09/2010 02:10:57 PM 755 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:20:45 PM 896 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Camilla - 24/09/2010 02:24:01 PM 778 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Lordling - 24/09/2010 02:14:52 PM 809 Views
We have a similar situation in Belgium. Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:32:25 PM 681 Views
It is all double dutch to me snoopcester - 24/09/2010 02:41:41 PM 758 Views
Hah! Camilla - 24/09/2010 06:58:49 PM 841 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Mark - 24/09/2010 03:32:09 PM 701 Views
That is rather sad to say the least. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:15:32 PM 926 Views
Indeed Mark - 24/09/2010 06:23:52 PM 747 Views
That's just Paris being a city of nasty people. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:32:40 PM 895 Views
I never noticed that Camilla - 24/09/2010 07:05:18 PM 787 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe jh - 24/09/2010 04:00:04 PM 820 Views
I didn't mean just in Sweden, or Scandinavia. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:19:32 PM 814 Views
Well... jh - 24/09/2010 10:50:09 PM 712 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 05:47:09 PM 786 Views
Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:04:30 PM 731 Views
Re: Interesting. BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 06:42:02 PM 884 Views
Re: Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 07:05:44 PM 793 Views
Re: Interesting. BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 07:21:24 PM 905 Views
Re: Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 08:18:30 PM 772 Views
Re: Interesting. everynametaken - 25/09/2010 08:02:30 PM 839 Views
American who just got a C+ on a French quiz reporting in. Ghavrel - 24/09/2010 06:09:31 PM 838 Views
What was it on? Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:22:35 PM 750 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Macharius - 24/09/2010 06:16:22 PM 698 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) The_Muted_Grimaud - 24/09/2010 09:38:05 PM 883 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) beckstcw - 25/09/2010 05:49:05 AM 872 Views
Real quick ironclad - 25/09/2010 12:03:51 PM 845 Views
Self-study can be worth as much as formal classroom study, I suppose Larry - 25/09/2010 03:43:14 PM 836 Views
Certainly it can. Legolas - 26/09/2010 12:35:56 PM 835 Views
You know, gen eds typically include a language. *NM* Ghavrel - 26/09/2010 07:28:57 PM 330 Views
Yes, but other things as well. Legolas - 26/09/2010 08:08:20 PM 773 Views
Interesting Larry - 27/09/2010 03:14:00 AM 934 Views
Re: Interesting Legolas - 27/09/2010 11:04:37 AM 843 Views
You don't have to prove it's economically valid? Ghavrel - 27/09/2010 08:31:46 PM 866 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) (beat.) - 25/09/2010 04:54:40 PM 977 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) everynametaken - 25/09/2010 07:38:29 PM 903 Views
The amount of German is more surprising. Joel - 25/09/2010 07:55:29 PM 655 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Morgawse - 26/09/2010 12:07:19 AM 920 Views
They should have asked about second languages rather than foreign languages. Tim - 26/09/2010 11:34:27 AM 770 Views
Aye, they should have. Legolas - 26/09/2010 12:26:51 PM 879 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Stephen - 27/09/2010 03:18:30 PM 814 Views
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