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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?
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/Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Legolas - 24/09/2010 01:37:42 PM 1249 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Floffe - 24/09/2010 01:49:32 PM 678 Views
Answering the survey myself... Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:04:39 PM 680 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Camilla - 24/09/2010 02:10:57 PM 666 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:20:45 PM 806 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Camilla - 24/09/2010 02:24:01 PM 684 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Lordling - 24/09/2010 02:14:52 PM 726 Views
We have a similar situation in Belgium. Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:32:25 PM 588 Views
It is all double dutch to me snoopcester - 24/09/2010 02:41:41 PM 671 Views
Hah! Camilla - 24/09/2010 06:58:49 PM 747 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Mark - 24/09/2010 03:32:09 PM 616 Views
That is rather sad to say the least. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:15:32 PM 843 Views
Indeed Mark - 24/09/2010 06:23:52 PM 655 Views
That's just Paris being a city of nasty people. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:32:40 PM 803 Views
I never noticed that Camilla - 24/09/2010 07:05:18 PM 690 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe jh - 24/09/2010 04:00:04 PM 731 Views
I didn't mean just in Sweden, or Scandinavia. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:19:32 PM 717 Views
Well... jh - 24/09/2010 10:50:09 PM 625 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 05:47:09 PM 691 Views
Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:04:30 PM 645 Views
Re: Interesting. BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 06:42:02 PM 792 Views
Re: Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 07:05:44 PM 699 Views
Re: Interesting. BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 07:21:24 PM 821 Views
Re: Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 08:18:30 PM 679 Views
Re: Interesting. everynametaken - 25/09/2010 08:02:30 PM 745 Views
American who just got a C+ on a French quiz reporting in. Ghavrel - 24/09/2010 06:09:31 PM 748 Views
What was it on? Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:22:35 PM 660 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Macharius - 24/09/2010 06:16:22 PM 602 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) The_Muted_Grimaud - 24/09/2010 09:38:05 PM 793 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) beckstcw - 25/09/2010 05:49:05 AM 773 Views
Real quick ironclad - 25/09/2010 12:03:51 PM 747 Views
Self-study can be worth as much as formal classroom study, I suppose Larry - 25/09/2010 03:43:14 PM 744 Views
Certainly it can. Legolas - 26/09/2010 12:35:56 PM 744 Views
You know, gen eds typically include a language. *NM* Ghavrel - 26/09/2010 07:28:57 PM 297 Views
Yes, but other things as well. Legolas - 26/09/2010 08:08:20 PM 688 Views
Interesting Larry - 27/09/2010 03:14:00 AM 849 Views
Re: Interesting Legolas - 27/09/2010 11:04:37 AM 751 Views
You don't have to prove it's economically valid? Ghavrel - 27/09/2010 08:31:46 PM 767 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) (beat.) - 25/09/2010 04:54:40 PM 890 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) everynametaken - 25/09/2010 07:38:29 PM 809 Views
The amount of German is more surprising. Joel - 25/09/2010 07:55:29 PM 562 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Morgawse - 26/09/2010 12:07:19 AM 830 Views
They should have asked about second languages rather than foreign languages. Tim - 26/09/2010 11:34:27 AM 670 Views
Aye, they should have. Legolas - 26/09/2010 12:26:51 PM 789 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Stephen - 27/09/2010 03:18:30 PM 730 Views
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