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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 1353 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Floffe - 24/09/2010 01:49:32 PM 762 Views
Answering the survey myself... Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:04:39 PM 776 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Camilla - 24/09/2010 02:10:57 PM 760 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:20:45 PM 901 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Camilla - 24/09/2010 02:24:01 PM 783 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Lordling - 24/09/2010 02:14:52 PM 813 Views
We have a similar situation in Belgium. Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:32:25 PM 684 Views
It is all double dutch to me snoopcester - 24/09/2010 02:41:41 PM 762 Views
Hah! Camilla - 24/09/2010 06:58:49 PM 846 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Mark - 24/09/2010 03:32:09 PM 706 Views
That is rather sad to say the least. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:15:32 PM 931 Views
Indeed Mark - 24/09/2010 06:23:52 PM 752 Views
That's just Paris being a city of nasty people. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:32:40 PM 900 Views
I never noticed that Camilla - 24/09/2010 07:05:18 PM 792 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe jh - 24/09/2010 04:00:04 PM 825 Views
I didn't mean just in Sweden, or Scandinavia. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:19:32 PM 819 Views
Well... jh - 24/09/2010 10:50:09 PM 717 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 05:47:09 PM 791 Views
Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:04:30 PM 736 Views
Re: Interesting. BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 06:42:02 PM 889 Views
Re: Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 07:05:44 PM 798 Views
Re: Interesting. BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 07:21:24 PM 910 Views
Re: Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 08:18:30 PM 777 Views
Re: Interesting. everynametaken - 25/09/2010 08:02:30 PM 844 Views
American who just got a C+ on a French quiz reporting in. Ghavrel - 24/09/2010 06:09:31 PM 843 Views
What was it on? Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:22:35 PM 755 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Macharius - 24/09/2010 06:16:22 PM 703 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) The_Muted_Grimaud - 24/09/2010 09:38:05 PM 888 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) beckstcw - 25/09/2010 05:49:05 AM 876 Views
Real quick ironclad - 25/09/2010 12:03:51 PM 850 Views
Self-study can be worth as much as formal classroom study, I suppose Larry - 25/09/2010 03:43:14 PM 841 Views
Certainly it can. Legolas - 26/09/2010 12:35:56 PM 840 Views
You know, gen eds typically include a language. *NM* Ghavrel - 26/09/2010 07:28:57 PM 332 Views
Yes, but other things as well. Legolas - 26/09/2010 08:08:20 PM 778 Views
Interesting Larry - 27/09/2010 03:14:00 AM 938 Views
Re: Interesting Legolas - 27/09/2010 11:04:37 AM 848 Views
You don't have to prove it's economically valid? Ghavrel - 27/09/2010 08:31:46 PM 871 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) (beat.) - 25/09/2010 04:54:40 PM 982 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) everynametaken - 25/09/2010 07:38:29 PM 908 Views
The amount of German is more surprising. Joel - 25/09/2010 07:55:29 PM 660 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Morgawse - 26/09/2010 12:07:19 AM 925 Views
They should have asked about second languages rather than foreign languages. Tim - 26/09/2010 11:34:27 AM 775 Views
Aye, they should have. Legolas - 26/09/2010 12:26:51 PM 884 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Stephen - 27/09/2010 03:18:30 PM 819 Views
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