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.
/Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere)
- 24/09/2010 01:37:42 PM
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- 24/09/2010 02:10:57 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.
- 24/09/2010 06:42:02 PM
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Re: Interesting.
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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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