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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 1444 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Floffe - 24/09/2010 01:49:32 PM 850 Views
Answering the survey myself... Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:04:39 PM 871 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Camilla - 24/09/2010 02:10:57 PM 863 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:20:45 PM 992 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Camilla - 24/09/2010 02:24:01 PM 858 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Lordling - 24/09/2010 02:14:52 PM 891 Views
We have a similar situation in Belgium. Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:32:25 PM 770 Views
It is all double dutch to me snoopcester - 24/09/2010 02:41:41 PM 835 Views
Hah! Camilla - 24/09/2010 06:58:49 PM 931 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Mark - 24/09/2010 03:32:09 PM 791 Views
That is rather sad to say the least. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:15:32 PM 1025 Views
Indeed Mark - 24/09/2010 06:23:52 PM 836 Views
That's just Paris being a city of nasty people. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:32:40 PM 978 Views
I never noticed that Camilla - 24/09/2010 07:05:18 PM 877 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe jh - 24/09/2010 04:00:04 PM 910 Views
I didn't mean just in Sweden, or Scandinavia. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:19:32 PM 897 Views
Well... jh - 24/09/2010 10:50:09 PM 812 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 05:47:09 PM 902 Views
Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:04:30 PM 830 Views
Re: Interesting. BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 06:42:02 PM 976 Views
Re: Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 07:05:44 PM 881 Views
Re: Interesting. BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 07:21:24 PM 992 Views
Re: Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 08:18:30 PM 862 Views
Re: Interesting. everynametaken - 25/09/2010 08:02:30 PM 922 Views
American who just got a C+ on a French quiz reporting in. Ghavrel - 24/09/2010 06:09:31 PM 924 Views
What was it on? Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:22:35 PM 837 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Macharius - 24/09/2010 06:16:22 PM 793 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) The_Muted_Grimaud - 24/09/2010 09:38:05 PM 976 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) beckstcw - 25/09/2010 05:49:05 AM 979 Views
Real quick ironclad - 25/09/2010 12:03:51 PM 939 Views
Self-study can be worth as much as formal classroom study, I suppose Larry - 25/09/2010 03:43:14 PM 927 Views
Certainly it can. Legolas - 26/09/2010 12:35:56 PM 937 Views
You know, gen eds typically include a language. *NM* Ghavrel - 26/09/2010 07:28:57 PM 373 Views
Yes, but other things as well. Legolas - 26/09/2010 08:08:20 PM 859 Views
Interesting Larry - 27/09/2010 03:14:00 AM 1058 Views
Re: Interesting Legolas - 27/09/2010 11:04:37 AM 954 Views
You don't have to prove it's economically valid? Ghavrel - 27/09/2010 08:31:46 PM 961 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) (beat.) - 25/09/2010 04:54:40 PM 1072 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) everynametaken - 25/09/2010 07:38:29 PM 997 Views
The amount of German is more surprising. Joel - 25/09/2010 07:55:29 PM 745 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Morgawse - 26/09/2010 12:07:19 AM 1013 Views
They should have asked about second languages rather than foreign languages. Tim - 26/09/2010 11:34:27 AM 857 Views
Aye, they should have. Legolas - 26/09/2010 12:26:51 PM 958 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Stephen - 27/09/2010 03:18:30 PM 914 Views
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