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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 1552 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Floffe - 24/09/2010 01:49:32 PM 937 Views
Answering the survey myself... Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:04:39 PM 960 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Camilla - 24/09/2010 02:10:57 PM 946 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:20:45 PM 1092 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Camilla - 24/09/2010 02:24:01 PM 952 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Lordling - 24/09/2010 02:14:52 PM 996 Views
We have a similar situation in Belgium. Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:32:25 PM 862 Views
It is all double dutch to me snoopcester - 24/09/2010 02:41:41 PM 926 Views
Hah! Camilla - 24/09/2010 06:58:49 PM 1029 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Mark - 24/09/2010 03:32:09 PM 892 Views
That is rather sad to say the least. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:15:32 PM 1128 Views
Indeed Mark - 24/09/2010 06:23:52 PM 930 Views
That's just Paris being a city of nasty people. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:32:40 PM 1071 Views
I never noticed that Camilla - 24/09/2010 07:05:18 PM 975 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe jh - 24/09/2010 04:00:04 PM 1012 Views
I didn't mean just in Sweden, or Scandinavia. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:19:32 PM 1001 Views
Well... jh - 24/09/2010 10:50:09 PM 910 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 05:47:09 PM 997 Views
Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:04:30 PM 925 Views
Re: Interesting. BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 06:42:02 PM 1070 Views
Re: Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 07:05:44 PM 969 Views
Re: Interesting. BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 07:21:24 PM 1090 Views
Re: Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 08:18:30 PM 957 Views
Re: Interesting. everynametaken - 25/09/2010 08:02:30 PM 1021 Views
American who just got a C+ on a French quiz reporting in. Ghavrel - 24/09/2010 06:09:31 PM 1031 Views
What was it on? Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:22:35 PM 936 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Macharius - 24/09/2010 06:16:22 PM 894 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) The_Muted_Grimaud - 24/09/2010 09:38:05 PM 1075 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) beckstcw - 25/09/2010 05:49:05 AM 1080 Views
Real quick ironclad - 25/09/2010 12:03:51 PM 1033 Views
Self-study can be worth as much as formal classroom study, I suppose Larry - 25/09/2010 03:43:14 PM 1034 Views
Certainly it can. Legolas - 26/09/2010 12:35:56 PM 1030 Views
You know, gen eds typically include a language. *NM* Ghavrel - 26/09/2010 07:28:57 PM 422 Views
Yes, but other things as well. Legolas - 26/09/2010 08:08:20 PM 952 Views
Interesting Larry - 27/09/2010 03:14:00 AM 1162 Views
Re: Interesting Legolas - 27/09/2010 11:04:37 AM 1049 Views
You don't have to prove it's economically valid? Ghavrel - 27/09/2010 08:31:46 PM 1059 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) (beat.) - 25/09/2010 04:54:40 PM 1159 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) everynametaken - 25/09/2010 07:38:29 PM 1083 Views
The amount of German is more surprising. Joel - 25/09/2010 07:55:29 PM 847 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Morgawse - 26/09/2010 12:07:19 AM 1115 Views
They should have asked about second languages rather than foreign languages. Tim - 26/09/2010 11:34:27 AM 961 Views
Aye, they should have. Legolas - 26/09/2010 12:26:51 PM 1052 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Stephen - 27/09/2010 03:18:30 PM 1012 Views
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