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Re: Interesting. BlackAdder Send a noteboard - 24/09/2010 06:42:02 PM
My answers may be a bit strange since I have hopped around a bit.

Yes, so it seems. Marathi and Telugu aren't really spoken in the same part of India, either, so I take it you traveled around a bit within India as well?

Yeah sort of but I don't think that affected it too much. We lived in Pune where most people spoke Marathi but my parents and family spoke Telugu so I picked up both.
Well, I lived in India for a while so I learned Hindi, Marathi, and Telugu (the latter two are regional languages which I picked up naturally and not via schooling). I also learned some English at the time, but not really until I moved to the US. Most people these days learn English so they can generally understand it, but it's usually not very polished.

Should be better in India than in most other countries, though.

Hmm, I'm not sure why you think that?
I've learned bits and pieces of other languages like Japanese, French, Spanish, Arabic, etc., but it's not all that useful to be completely honest.

Oh well. :P I'm slowly learning Finnish, which is as good as useless as nearly every Finn speaks English, but it's not the usefulness that makes me do it, anyway.

Oh, I'm not saying the languages themselves are useless, just that my level of (non-)mastery makes them so :P
English is used pretty commonly. Pretty remarkable how many people either know it or will recognize certain phrases even if they don't. It's not surprising to me that English speakers have a lower rate of learning secondary languages simply due to lack of a need for many of them.

Certainly, need is a big factor in learning languages - and exposure as well, which doesn't help English speakers either as their culture is so dominant.

Yeah, I think more people seem to be learning Spanish though, at least in places with higher first-gen hispanic populations.
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We have a similar situation in Belgium. Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:32:25 PM 811 Views
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That is rather sad to say the least. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:15:32 PM 1067 Views
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That's just Paris being a city of nasty people. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:32:40 PM 1017 Views
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I didn't mean just in Sweden, or Scandinavia. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:19:32 PM 951 Views
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Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:04:30 PM 871 Views
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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 879 Views
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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
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You don't have to prove it's economically valid? Ghavrel - 27/09/2010 08:31:46 PM 1001 Views
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The amount of German is more surprising. Joel - 25/09/2010 07:55:29 PM 796 Views
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They should have asked about second languages rather than foreign languages. Tim - 26/09/2010 11:34:27 AM 913 Views
Aye, they should have. Legolas - 26/09/2010 12:26:51 PM 1004 Views
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