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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 1492 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Floffe - 24/09/2010 01:49:32 PM 885 Views
Answering the survey myself... Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:04:39 PM 916 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Camilla - 24/09/2010 02:10:57 PM 902 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:20:45 PM 1042 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Camilla - 24/09/2010 02:24:01 PM 904 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Lordling - 24/09/2010 02:14:52 PM 944 Views
We have a similar situation in Belgium. Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:32:25 PM 811 Views
It is all double dutch to me snoopcester - 24/09/2010 02:41:41 PM 871 Views
Hah! Camilla - 24/09/2010 06:58:49 PM 979 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Mark - 24/09/2010 03:32:09 PM 837 Views
That is rather sad to say the least. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:15:32 PM 1068 Views
Indeed Mark - 24/09/2010 06:23:52 PM 886 Views
That's just Paris being a city of nasty people. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:32:40 PM 1017 Views
I never noticed that Camilla - 24/09/2010 07:05:18 PM 916 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe jh - 24/09/2010 04:00:04 PM 955 Views
I didn't mean just in Sweden, or Scandinavia. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:19:32 PM 951 Views
Well... jh - 24/09/2010 10:50:09 PM 859 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 05:47:09 PM 944 Views
Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:04:30 PM 872 Views
Re: Interesting. BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 06:42:02 PM 1023 Views
Re: Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 07:05:44 PM 926 Views
Re: Interesting. BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 07:21:24 PM 1036 Views
Re: Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 08:18:30 PM 911 Views
Re: Interesting. everynametaken - 25/09/2010 08:02:30 PM 963 Views
American who just got a C+ on a French quiz reporting in. Ghavrel - 24/09/2010 06:09:31 PM 962 Views
What was it on? Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:22:35 PM 880 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Macharius - 24/09/2010 06:16:22 PM 847 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) The_Muted_Grimaud - 24/09/2010 09:38:05 PM 1023 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) beckstcw - 25/09/2010 05:49:05 AM 1026 Views
Real quick ironclad - 25/09/2010 12:03:51 PM 983 Views
Self-study can be worth as much as formal classroom study, I suppose Larry - 25/09/2010 03:43:14 PM 981 Views
Certainly it can. Legolas - 26/09/2010 12:35:56 PM 984 Views
You know, gen eds typically include a language. *NM* Ghavrel - 26/09/2010 07:28:57 PM 393 Views
Yes, but other things as well. Legolas - 26/09/2010 08:08:20 PM 900 Views
Interesting Larry - 27/09/2010 03:14:00 AM 1111 Views
Re: Interesting Legolas - 27/09/2010 11:04:37 AM 995 Views
You don't have to prove it's economically valid? Ghavrel - 27/09/2010 08:31:46 PM 1001 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) (beat.) - 25/09/2010 04:54:40 PM 1114 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) everynametaken - 25/09/2010 07:38:29 PM 1034 Views
The amount of German is more surprising. Joel - 25/09/2010 07:55:29 PM 796 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Morgawse - 26/09/2010 12:07:19 AM 1059 Views
They should have asked about second languages rather than foreign languages. Tim - 26/09/2010 11:34:27 AM 914 Views
Aye, they should have. Legolas - 26/09/2010 12:26:51 PM 1004 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Stephen - 27/09/2010 03:18:30 PM 958 Views
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