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We have a similar situation in Belgium. Legolas Send a noteboard - 24/09/2010 02:32:25 PM
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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