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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 1314 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Floffe - 24/09/2010 01:49:32 PM 728 Views
Answering the survey myself... Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:04:39 PM 741 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Camilla - 24/09/2010 02:10:57 PM 725 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:20:45 PM 864 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Camilla - 24/09/2010 02:24:01 PM 753 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Lordling - 24/09/2010 02:14:52 PM 779 Views
We have a similar situation in Belgium. Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:32:25 PM 652 Views
It is all double dutch to me snoopcester - 24/09/2010 02:41:41 PM 729 Views
Hah! Camilla - 24/09/2010 06:58:49 PM 811 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Mark - 24/09/2010 03:32:09 PM 672 Views
That is rather sad to say the least. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:15:32 PM 898 Views
Indeed Mark - 24/09/2010 06:23:52 PM 716 Views
That's just Paris being a city of nasty people. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:32:40 PM 859 Views
I never noticed that Camilla - 24/09/2010 07:05:18 PM 755 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe jh - 24/09/2010 04:00:04 PM 787 Views
I didn't mean just in Sweden, or Scandinavia. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:19:32 PM 782 Views
Well... jh - 24/09/2010 10:50:09 PM 682 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 05:47:09 PM 753 Views
Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:04:30 PM 699 Views
Re: Interesting. BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 06:42:02 PM 853 Views
Re: Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 07:05:44 PM 761 Views
Re: Interesting. BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 07:21:24 PM 877 Views
Re: Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 08:18:30 PM 737 Views
Re: Interesting. everynametaken - 25/09/2010 08:02:30 PM 805 Views
American who just got a C+ on a French quiz reporting in. Ghavrel - 24/09/2010 06:09:31 PM 810 Views
What was it on? Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:22:35 PM 720 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Macharius - 24/09/2010 06:16:22 PM 666 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) The_Muted_Grimaud - 24/09/2010 09:38:05 PM 852 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) beckstcw - 25/09/2010 05:49:05 AM 839 Views
Real quick ironclad - 25/09/2010 12:03:51 PM 812 Views
Self-study can be worth as much as formal classroom study, I suppose Larry - 25/09/2010 03:43:14 PM 807 Views
Certainly it can. Legolas - 26/09/2010 12:35:56 PM 807 Views
You know, gen eds typically include a language. *NM* Ghavrel - 26/09/2010 07:28:57 PM 320 Views
Yes, but other things as well. Legolas - 26/09/2010 08:08:20 PM 744 Views
Interesting Larry - 27/09/2010 03:14:00 AM 904 Views
Re: Interesting Legolas - 27/09/2010 11:04:37 AM 812 Views
You don't have to prove it's economically valid? Ghavrel - 27/09/2010 08:31:46 PM 834 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) (beat.) - 25/09/2010 04:54:40 PM 947 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) everynametaken - 25/09/2010 07:38:29 PM 872 Views
The amount of German is more surprising. Joel - 25/09/2010 07:55:29 PM 627 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Morgawse - 26/09/2010 12:07:19 AM 885 Views
They should have asked about second languages rather than foreign languages. Tim - 26/09/2010 11:34:27 AM 740 Views
Aye, they should have. Legolas - 26/09/2010 12:26:51 PM 844 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Stephen - 27/09/2010 03:18:30 PM 785 Views
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