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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 1228 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Floffe - 24/09/2010 01:49:32 PM 659 Views
Answering the survey myself... Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:04:39 PM 656 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Camilla - 24/09/2010 02:10:57 PM 642 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:20:45 PM 780 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Camilla - 24/09/2010 02:24:01 PM 667 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Lordling - 24/09/2010 02:14:52 PM 698 Views
We have a similar situation in Belgium. Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:32:25 PM 567 Views
It is all double dutch to me snoopcester - 24/09/2010 02:41:41 PM 644 Views
Hah! Camilla - 24/09/2010 06:58:49 PM 725 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Mark - 24/09/2010 03:32:09 PM 595 Views
That is rather sad to say the least. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:15:32 PM 831 Views
Indeed Mark - 24/09/2010 06:23:52 PM 632 Views
That's just Paris being a city of nasty people. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:32:40 PM 783 Views
I never noticed that Camilla - 24/09/2010 07:05:18 PM 669 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe jh - 24/09/2010 04:00:04 PM 710 Views
I didn't mean just in Sweden, or Scandinavia. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:19:32 PM 691 Views
Well... jh - 24/09/2010 10:50:09 PM 605 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 05:47:09 PM 670 Views
Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:04:30 PM 622 Views
Re: Interesting. BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 06:42:02 PM 766 Views
Re: Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 07:05:44 PM 676 Views
Re: Interesting. BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 07:21:24 PM 802 Views
Re: Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 08:18:30 PM 656 Views
Re: Interesting. everynametaken - 25/09/2010 08:02:30 PM 718 Views
American who just got a C+ on a French quiz reporting in. Ghavrel - 24/09/2010 06:09:31 PM 726 Views
What was it on? Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:22:35 PM 634 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Macharius - 24/09/2010 06:16:22 PM 580 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) The_Muted_Grimaud - 24/09/2010 09:38:05 PM 769 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) beckstcw - 25/09/2010 05:49:05 AM 750 Views
Real quick ironclad - 25/09/2010 12:03:51 PM 726 Views
Self-study can be worth as much as formal classroom study, I suppose Larry - 25/09/2010 03:43:14 PM 727 Views
Certainly it can. Legolas - 26/09/2010 12:35:56 PM 728 Views
You know, gen eds typically include a language. *NM* Ghavrel - 26/09/2010 07:28:57 PM 285 Views
Yes, but other things as well. Legolas - 26/09/2010 08:08:20 PM 668 Views
Interesting Larry - 27/09/2010 03:14:00 AM 830 Views
Re: Interesting Legolas - 27/09/2010 11:04:37 AM 732 Views
You don't have to prove it's economically valid? Ghavrel - 27/09/2010 08:31:46 PM 745 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) (beat.) - 25/09/2010 04:54:40 PM 869 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) everynametaken - 25/09/2010 07:38:29 PM 791 Views
The amount of German is more surprising. Joel - 25/09/2010 07:55:29 PM 542 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Morgawse - 26/09/2010 12:07:19 AM 812 Views
They should have asked about second languages rather than foreign languages. Tim - 26/09/2010 11:34:27 AM 647 Views
Aye, they should have. Legolas - 26/09/2010 12:26:51 PM 766 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Stephen - 27/09/2010 03:18:30 PM 708 Views
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