Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe
Lordling Send a noteboard - 24/09/2010 02:14:52 PM
1) Which languages did you learn in school, and for how long?
Finnish for 12 years (well, I'm on the 12th year now)
English: nine years
Swedish: five years
German: four years
I'd like to add another language to the list some day, too. Estonian might be nice. Actually, I'd love to learn Icelandic because it seems so awesome, but that's probably not realistic. We'll see.
2) Which languages would you say you speak with some degree of fluency?
I can read a newspaper in Swedish and I think I have a pretty good accent, but that's the extent of my ability. My German is about the same. I have no real problems with English.
3) Do you think languages get too much attention in the school system you went to, too little, or just about enough?
Well, English is a must. We have mandatory Swedish, which doesn't make too much sense but I'm okay with it. I think the national curriculum was changed so that Swedish will begin to be taught to even younger pupils and some people are wishing that the people who live in the east could switch Swedish to Russian, since it would serve them better.
4) What do you think of the remarkable dominance of English that appears in the data?
Remarkable?
/Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere)
24/09/2010 01:37:42 PM
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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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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.
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Re: Interesting.
24/09/2010 07:05:44 PM
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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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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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