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What was it on? Legolas Send a noteboard - 24/09/2010 06:22:35 PM
Latin (9 years), Greek (3 semesters), French (5 semesters), will be taking Arabic next year.

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English. With a bit of work I'd be proficient in Latin again.

Were you ever at a point where you could speak it? In our schools it's all passive really for Latin, though in universities some people might still be able to have conversations in it. At least, I've heard horror stories of professors teaching entire classes in Latin.
Not nearly enough. My actual high school had something like eight languages available when I enrolled; by the time I graduated it was down to three (well, four, but they dropped Greek soon after).

I would agree - not so much the lack of choice, as some American schools have an impressive amount of choice and even three foreign languages is not that bad, as the way many people seem to leave school without being able to speak the language they studied. Not many people get to nine years in any language like you, I dare say...
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/Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Legolas - 24/09/2010 01:37:42 PM 1308 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Floffe - 24/09/2010 01:49:32 PM 723 Views
Answering the survey myself... Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:04:39 PM 732 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Camilla - 24/09/2010 02:10:57 PM 719 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:20:45 PM 858 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Camilla - 24/09/2010 02:24:01 PM 746 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Lordling - 24/09/2010 02:14:52 PM 774 Views
We have a similar situation in Belgium. Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:32:25 PM 645 Views
It is all double dutch to me snoopcester - 24/09/2010 02:41:41 PM 724 Views
Hah! Camilla - 24/09/2010 06:58:49 PM 804 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Mark - 24/09/2010 03:32:09 PM 669 Views
That is rather sad to say the least. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:15:32 PM 893 Views
Indeed Mark - 24/09/2010 06:23:52 PM 713 Views
That's just Paris being a city of nasty people. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:32:40 PM 855 Views
I never noticed that Camilla - 24/09/2010 07:05:18 PM 749 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe jh - 24/09/2010 04:00:04 PM 782 Views
I didn't mean just in Sweden, or Scandinavia. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:19:32 PM 776 Views
Well... jh - 24/09/2010 10:50:09 PM 678 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 05:47:09 PM 747 Views
Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:04:30 PM 696 Views
Re: Interesting. BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 06:42:02 PM 848 Views
Re: Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 07:05:44 PM 755 Views
Re: Interesting. BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 07:21:24 PM 869 Views
Re: Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 08:18:30 PM 731 Views
Re: Interesting. everynametaken - 25/09/2010 08:02:30 PM 801 Views
American who just got a C+ on a French quiz reporting in. Ghavrel - 24/09/2010 06:09:31 PM 804 Views
What was it on? Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:22:35 PM 715 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Macharius - 24/09/2010 06:16:22 PM 662 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) The_Muted_Grimaud - 24/09/2010 09:38:05 PM 846 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) beckstcw - 25/09/2010 05:49:05 AM 832 Views
Real quick ironclad - 25/09/2010 12:03:51 PM 809 Views
Self-study can be worth as much as formal classroom study, I suppose Larry - 25/09/2010 03:43:14 PM 802 Views
Certainly it can. Legolas - 26/09/2010 12:35:56 PM 802 Views
You know, gen eds typically include a language. *NM* Ghavrel - 26/09/2010 07:28:57 PM 316 Views
Yes, but other things as well. Legolas - 26/09/2010 08:08:20 PM 738 Views
Interesting Larry - 27/09/2010 03:14:00 AM 897 Views
Re: Interesting Legolas - 27/09/2010 11:04:37 AM 808 Views
You don't have to prove it's economically valid? Ghavrel - 27/09/2010 08:31:46 PM 828 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) (beat.) - 25/09/2010 04:54:40 PM 942 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) everynametaken - 25/09/2010 07:38:29 PM 865 Views
The amount of German is more surprising. Joel - 25/09/2010 07:55:29 PM 620 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Morgawse - 26/09/2010 12:07:19 AM 880 Views
They should have asked about second languages rather than foreign languages. Tim - 26/09/2010 11:34:27 AM 733 Views
Aye, they should have. Legolas - 26/09/2010 12:26:51 PM 840 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Stephen - 27/09/2010 03:18:30 PM 779 Views
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