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.
We have French as mandatory second language because of Belgium being bilingual (trilingual, really, but our German-speaking minority is so small that it doesn't matter much), but some people would be better off getting more English and less French. Seems like the same thing with your eastern population which doesn't have much contact with Swedish-speaking Finns or with Sweden itself, and has more use for Russian.
Of course, in our case, things aren't aided by the way the French-speaking Belgians don't return the favour and in increasing numbers pick English as first foreign language and Dutch only as second.
4) What do you think of the remarkable dominance of English that appears in the data?
Remarkable?
I thought so. See my reply to Camilla.
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- 24/09/2010 01:37:42 PM
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- 24/09/2010 02:10:57 PM
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- 24/09/2010 02:14:52 PM
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We have a similar situation in Belgium.
- 24/09/2010 02:32:25 PM
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- 24/09/2010 03:32:09 PM
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That is rather sad to say the least.
- 24/09/2010 04:15:32 PM
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Indeed
- 24/09/2010 06:23:52 PM
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- 24/09/2010 04:00:04 PM
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- 24/09/2010 05:47:09 PM
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Interesting.
- 24/09/2010 06:04:30 PM
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Re: Interesting.
- 24/09/2010 06:42:02 PM
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Re: Interesting.
- 24/09/2010 07:05:44 PM
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- 24/09/2010 09:38:05 PM
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- 25/09/2010 05:49:05 AM
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Self-study can be worth as much as formal classroom study, I suppose
- 25/09/2010 03:43:14 PM
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Certainly it can.
- 26/09/2010 12:35:56 PM
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- 26/09/2010 12:07:19 AM
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They should have asked about second languages rather than foreign languages.
- 26/09/2010 11:34:27 AM
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