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Interesting. Legolas Send a noteboard - 24/09/2010 06:04:30 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?
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.
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. 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.
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.
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/Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Legolas - 24/09/2010 01:37:42 PM 1367 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Floffe - 24/09/2010 01:49:32 PM 778 Views
Answering the survey myself... Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:04:39 PM 787 Views
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Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:20:45 PM 916 Views
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Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Lordling - 24/09/2010 02:14:52 PM 826 Views
We have a similar situation in Belgium. Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:32:25 PM 698 Views
It is all double dutch to me snoopcester - 24/09/2010 02:41:41 PM 770 Views
Hah! Camilla - 24/09/2010 06:58:49 PM 862 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Mark - 24/09/2010 03:32:09 PM 717 Views
That is rather sad to say the least. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:15:32 PM 946 Views
Indeed Mark - 24/09/2010 06:23:52 PM 764 Views
That's just Paris being a city of nasty people. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:32:40 PM 907 Views
I never noticed that Camilla - 24/09/2010 07:05:18 PM 804 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe jh - 24/09/2010 04:00:04 PM 838 Views
I didn't mean just in Sweden, or Scandinavia. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:19:32 PM 832 Views
Well... jh - 24/09/2010 10:50:09 PM 730 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 05:47:09 PM 804 Views
Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:04:30 PM 750 Views
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Re: Interesting. everynametaken - 25/09/2010 08:02:30 PM 856 Views
American who just got a C+ on a French quiz reporting in. Ghavrel - 24/09/2010 06:09:31 PM 857 Views
What was it on? Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:22:35 PM 767 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Macharius - 24/09/2010 06:16:22 PM 714 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) The_Muted_Grimaud - 24/09/2010 09:38:05 PM 899 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) beckstcw - 25/09/2010 05:49:05 AM 889 Views
Real quick ironclad - 25/09/2010 12:03:51 PM 862 Views
Self-study can be worth as much as formal classroom study, I suppose Larry - 25/09/2010 03:43:14 PM 851 Views
Certainly it can. Legolas - 26/09/2010 12:35:56 PM 853 Views
You know, gen eds typically include a language. *NM* Ghavrel - 26/09/2010 07:28:57 PM 338 Views
Yes, but other things as well. Legolas - 26/09/2010 08:08:20 PM 791 Views
Interesting Larry - 27/09/2010 03:14:00 AM 951 Views
Re: Interesting Legolas - 27/09/2010 11:04:37 AM 860 Views
You don't have to prove it's economically valid? Ghavrel - 27/09/2010 08:31:46 PM 881 Views
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Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) everynametaken - 25/09/2010 07:38:29 PM 920 Views
The amount of German is more surprising. Joel - 25/09/2010 07:55:29 PM 674 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Morgawse - 26/09/2010 12:07:19 AM 936 Views
They should have asked about second languages rather than foreign languages. Tim - 26/09/2010 11:34:27 AM 788 Views
Aye, they should have. Legolas - 26/09/2010 12:26:51 PM 891 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Stephen - 27/09/2010 03:18:30 PM 834 Views
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