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What was it on? Legolas Send a noteboard - 24/09/2010 06:22:35 PM
Latin (9 years), Greek (3 semesters), French (5 semesters), will be taking Arabic next year.

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

Were you ever at a point where you could speak it? In our schools it's all passive really for Latin, though in universities some people might still be able to have conversations in it. At least, I've heard horror stories of professors teaching entire classes in Latin.
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).

I would agree - not so much the lack of choice, as some American schools have an impressive amount of choice and even three foreign languages is not that bad, as the way many people seem to leave school without being able to speak the language they studied. Not many people get to nine years in any language like you, I dare say...
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/Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Legolas - 24/09/2010 01:37:42 PM 1348 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Floffe - 24/09/2010 01:49:32 PM 756 Views
Answering the survey myself... Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:04:39 PM 771 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Camilla - 24/09/2010 02:10:57 PM 755 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:20:45 PM 896 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Camilla - 24/09/2010 02:24:01 PM 778 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Lordling - 24/09/2010 02:14:52 PM 808 Views
We have a similar situation in Belgium. Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:32:25 PM 680 Views
It is all double dutch to me snoopcester - 24/09/2010 02:41:41 PM 758 Views
Hah! Camilla - 24/09/2010 06:58:49 PM 841 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Mark - 24/09/2010 03:32:09 PM 701 Views
That is rather sad to say the least. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:15:32 PM 926 Views
Indeed Mark - 24/09/2010 06:23:52 PM 747 Views
That's just Paris being a city of nasty people. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:32:40 PM 894 Views
I never noticed that Camilla - 24/09/2010 07:05:18 PM 787 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe jh - 24/09/2010 04:00:04 PM 820 Views
I didn't mean just in Sweden, or Scandinavia. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:19:32 PM 814 Views
Well... jh - 24/09/2010 10:50:09 PM 712 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 05:47:09 PM 785 Views
Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:04:30 PM 731 Views
Re: Interesting. BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 06:42:02 PM 884 Views
Re: Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 07:05:44 PM 793 Views
Re: Interesting. BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 07:21:24 PM 905 Views
Re: Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 08:18:30 PM 772 Views
Re: Interesting. everynametaken - 25/09/2010 08:02:30 PM 839 Views
American who just got a C+ on a French quiz reporting in. Ghavrel - 24/09/2010 06:09:31 PM 838 Views
What was it on? Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:22:35 PM 750 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Macharius - 24/09/2010 06:16:22 PM 698 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) The_Muted_Grimaud - 24/09/2010 09:38:05 PM 883 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) beckstcw - 25/09/2010 05:49:05 AM 871 Views
Real quick ironclad - 25/09/2010 12:03:51 PM 845 Views
Self-study can be worth as much as formal classroom study, I suppose Larry - 25/09/2010 03:43:14 PM 836 Views
Certainly it can. Legolas - 26/09/2010 12:35:56 PM 835 Views
You know, gen eds typically include a language. *NM* Ghavrel - 26/09/2010 07:28:57 PM 330 Views
Yes, but other things as well. Legolas - 26/09/2010 08:08:20 PM 773 Views
Interesting Larry - 27/09/2010 03:14:00 AM 934 Views
Re: Interesting Legolas - 27/09/2010 11:04:37 AM 843 Views
You don't have to prove it's economically valid? Ghavrel - 27/09/2010 08:31:46 PM 866 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) (beat.) - 25/09/2010 04:54:40 PM 977 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) everynametaken - 25/09/2010 07:38:29 PM 903 Views
The amount of German is more surprising. Joel - 25/09/2010 07:55:29 PM 655 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Morgawse - 26/09/2010 12:07:19 AM 920 Views
They should have asked about second languages rather than foreign languages. Tim - 26/09/2010 11:34:27 AM 769 Views
Aye, they should have. Legolas - 26/09/2010 12:26:51 PM 878 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Stephen - 27/09/2010 03:18:30 PM 814 Views
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