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American who just got a C+ on a French quiz reporting in. Ghavrel Send a noteboard - 24/09/2010 06:09:31 PM
1) Which languages did you learn in school, and for how long?

Latin (9 years), Greek (3 semesters), French (5 semesters), will be taking Arabic next year.

2) Which languages would you say you speak with some degree of fluency?

English. With a bit of work I'd be proficient in Latin again.

3) Do you think languages get too much attention in the school system you went to, too little, or just about enough?

Not nearly enough. My actual high school had something like eight languages available when I enrolled; by the time I graduated it was down to three (well, four, but they dropped Greek soon after).

4) What do you think of the remarkable dominance of English that appears in the data?

Given the past century, I am hardly surprised.
"We feel safe when we read what we recognise, what does not challenge our way of thinking.... a steady acceptance of pre-arranged patterns leads to the inability to question what we are told."
~Camilla

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/Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Legolas - 24/09/2010 01:37:42 PM 1554 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Floffe - 24/09/2010 01:49:32 PM 939 Views
Answering the survey myself... Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:04:39 PM 962 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Camilla - 24/09/2010 02:10:57 PM 947 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:20:45 PM 1094 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Camilla - 24/09/2010 02:24:01 PM 954 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Lordling - 24/09/2010 02:14:52 PM 997 Views
We have a similar situation in Belgium. Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:32:25 PM 863 Views
It is all double dutch to me snoopcester - 24/09/2010 02:41:41 PM 927 Views
Hah! Camilla - 24/09/2010 06:58:49 PM 1030 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 1129 Views
Indeed Mark - 24/09/2010 06:23:52 PM 932 Views
That's just Paris being a city of nasty people. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:32:40 PM 1073 Views
I never noticed that Camilla - 24/09/2010 07:05:18 PM 976 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe jh - 24/09/2010 04:00:04 PM 1014 Views
I didn't mean just in Sweden, or Scandinavia. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:19:32 PM 1003 Views
Well... jh - 24/09/2010 10:50:09 PM 912 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 05:47:09 PM 999 Views
Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:04:30 PM 927 Views
Re: Interesting. BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 06:42:02 PM 1072 Views
Re: Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 07:05:44 PM 970 Views
Re: Interesting. BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 07:21:24 PM 1092 Views
Re: Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 08:18:30 PM 959 Views
Re: Interesting. everynametaken - 25/09/2010 08:02:30 PM 1022 Views
American who just got a C+ on a French quiz reporting in. Ghavrel - 24/09/2010 06:09:31 PM 1034 Views
What was it on? Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:22:35 PM 938 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Macharius - 24/09/2010 06:16:22 PM 895 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) The_Muted_Grimaud - 24/09/2010 09:38:05 PM 1078 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) beckstcw - 25/09/2010 05:49:05 AM 1081 Views
Real quick ironclad - 25/09/2010 12:03:51 PM 1035 Views
Self-study can be worth as much as formal classroom study, I suppose Larry - 25/09/2010 03:43:14 PM 1036 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 953 Views
Interesting Larry - 27/09/2010 03:14:00 AM 1164 Views
Re: Interesting Legolas - 27/09/2010 11:04:37 AM 1051 Views
You don't have to prove it's economically valid? Ghavrel - 27/09/2010 08:31:46 PM 1061 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) (beat.) - 25/09/2010 04:54:40 PM 1160 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) everynametaken - 25/09/2010 07:38:29 PM 1084 Views
The amount of German is more surprising. Joel - 25/09/2010 07:55:29 PM 848 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Morgawse - 26/09/2010 12:07:19 AM 1117 Views
They should have asked about second languages rather than foreign languages. Tim - 26/09/2010 11:34:27 AM 962 Views
Aye, they should have. Legolas - 26/09/2010 12:26:51 PM 1054 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Stephen - 27/09/2010 03:18:30 PM 1014 Views
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