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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 1352 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Floffe - 24/09/2010 01:49:32 PM 760 Views
Answering the survey myself... Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:04:39 PM 774 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Camilla - 24/09/2010 02:10:57 PM 758 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:20:45 PM 901 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Camilla - 24/09/2010 02:24:01 PM 783 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Lordling - 24/09/2010 02:14:52 PM 812 Views
We have a similar situation in Belgium. Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:32:25 PM 684 Views
It is all double dutch to me snoopcester - 24/09/2010 02:41:41 PM 762 Views
Hah! Camilla - 24/09/2010 06:58:49 PM 846 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Mark - 24/09/2010 03:32:09 PM 706 Views
That is rather sad to say the least. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:15:32 PM 929 Views
Indeed Mark - 24/09/2010 06:23:52 PM 752 Views
That's just Paris being a city of nasty people. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:32:40 PM 899 Views
I never noticed that Camilla - 24/09/2010 07:05:18 PM 791 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe jh - 24/09/2010 04:00:04 PM 823 Views
I didn't mean just in Sweden, or Scandinavia. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:19:32 PM 818 Views
Well... jh - 24/09/2010 10:50:09 PM 717 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 05:47:09 PM 789 Views
Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:04:30 PM 735 Views
Re: Interesting. BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 06:42:02 PM 888 Views
Re: Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 07:05:44 PM 798 Views
Re: Interesting. BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 07:21:24 PM 908 Views
Re: Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 08:18:30 PM 777 Views
Re: Interesting. everynametaken - 25/09/2010 08:02:30 PM 842 Views
American who just got a C+ on a French quiz reporting in. Ghavrel - 24/09/2010 06:09:31 PM 841 Views
What was it on? Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:22:35 PM 755 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Macharius - 24/09/2010 06:16:22 PM 702 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) The_Muted_Grimaud - 24/09/2010 09:38:05 PM 888 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) beckstcw - 25/09/2010 05:49:05 AM 876 Views
Real quick ironclad - 25/09/2010 12:03:51 PM 849 Views
Self-study can be worth as much as formal classroom study, I suppose Larry - 25/09/2010 03:43:14 PM 841 Views
Certainly it can. Legolas - 26/09/2010 12:35:56 PM 838 Views
You know, gen eds typically include a language. *NM* Ghavrel - 26/09/2010 07:28:57 PM 332 Views
Yes, but other things as well. Legolas - 26/09/2010 08:08:20 PM 777 Views
Interesting Larry - 27/09/2010 03:14:00 AM 938 Views
Re: Interesting Legolas - 27/09/2010 11:04:37 AM 848 Views
You don't have to prove it's economically valid? Ghavrel - 27/09/2010 08:31:46 PM 870 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) (beat.) - 25/09/2010 04:54:40 PM 981 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) everynametaken - 25/09/2010 07:38:29 PM 906 Views
The amount of German is more surprising. Joel - 25/09/2010 07:55:29 PM 658 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Morgawse - 26/09/2010 12:07:19 AM 924 Views
They should have asked about second languages rather than foreign languages. Tim - 26/09/2010 11:34:27 AM 773 Views
Aye, they should have. Legolas - 26/09/2010 12:26:51 PM 884 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Stephen - 27/09/2010 03:18:30 PM 819 Views
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