The English is natural, just as it's natural for knowledge of foreign languages to be down where English is native. Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution the dominant global culture has been an English speaking one, either British or American, so it's become the lingua franca as French was during the Enlightenment and Renaissance. Even RAFO reflects that; when it left the States it just went to Britain, so the only thing that changed was the hosting (well, you know what I mean.
) Just like a Frank and a Turk could communicate better in Greek or Latin than they could in German or Turkish. That's what makes it so interesting, not that English is so often the first language, but that German is so often the second, far more than Russian or French.
) Just like a Frank and a Turk could communicate better in Greek or Latin than they could in German or Turkish. That's what makes it so interesting, not that English is so often the first language, but that German is so often the second, far more than Russian or French.
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Love still can't be coerced.
Please Don't Eat the Newbies!

LoL. Be well, RAFOlk.
/Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere)
- 24/09/2010 01:37:42 PM
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Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe
- 24/09/2010 02:10:57 PM
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Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe
- 24/09/2010 03:32:09 PM
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That is rather sad to say the least.
- 24/09/2010 04:15:32 PM
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Indeed
- 24/09/2010 06:23:52 PM
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Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe
- 24/09/2010 04:00:04 PM
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Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe
- 24/09/2010 05:47:09 PM
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Interesting.
- 24/09/2010 06:04:30 PM
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Re: Interesting.
- 24/09/2010 06:42:02 PM
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Re: Interesting.
- 24/09/2010 07:05:44 PM
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Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere)
- 24/09/2010 09:38:05 PM
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Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere)
- 25/09/2010 05:49:05 AM
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Self-study can be worth as much as formal classroom study, I suppose
- 25/09/2010 03:43:14 PM
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Certainly it can.
- 26/09/2010 12:35:56 PM
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Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere)
- 25/09/2010 04:54:40 PM
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Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere)
- 25/09/2010 07:38:29 PM
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The amount of German is more surprising.
- 25/09/2010 07:55:29 PM
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Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere)
- 26/09/2010 12:07:19 AM
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They should have asked about second languages rather than foreign languages.
- 26/09/2010 11:34:27 AM
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- 27/09/2010 03:18:30 PM
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