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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 1304 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Floffe - 24/09/2010 01:49:32 PM 719 Views
Answering the survey myself... Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:04:39 PM 724 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Camilla - 24/09/2010 02:10:57 PM 712 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:20:45 PM 853 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Camilla - 24/09/2010 02:24:01 PM 740 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Lordling - 24/09/2010 02:14:52 PM 770 Views
We have a similar situation in Belgium. Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:32:25 PM 640 Views
It is all double dutch to me snoopcester - 24/09/2010 02:41:41 PM 720 Views
Hah! Camilla - 24/09/2010 06:58:49 PM 800 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Mark - 24/09/2010 03:32:09 PM 666 Views
That is rather sad to say the least. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:15:32 PM 889 Views
Indeed Mark - 24/09/2010 06:23:52 PM 704 Views
That's just Paris being a city of nasty people. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:32:40 PM 849 Views
I never noticed that Camilla - 24/09/2010 07:05:18 PM 743 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe jh - 24/09/2010 04:00:04 PM 777 Views
I didn't mean just in Sweden, or Scandinavia. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:19:32 PM 773 Views
Well... jh - 24/09/2010 10:50:09 PM 672 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 05:47:09 PM 743 Views
Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:04:30 PM 692 Views
Re: Interesting. BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 06:42:02 PM 840 Views
Re: Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 07:05:44 PM 749 Views
Re: Interesting. BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 07:21:24 PM 862 Views
Re: Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 08:18:30 PM 725 Views
Re: Interesting. everynametaken - 25/09/2010 08:02:30 PM 797 Views
American who just got a C+ on a French quiz reporting in. Ghavrel - 24/09/2010 06:09:31 PM 800 Views
What was it on? Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:22:35 PM 710 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Macharius - 24/09/2010 06:16:22 PM 655 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) The_Muted_Grimaud - 24/09/2010 09:38:05 PM 841 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) beckstcw - 25/09/2010 05:49:05 AM 826 Views
Real quick ironclad - 25/09/2010 12:03:51 PM 803 Views
Self-study can be worth as much as formal classroom study, I suppose Larry - 25/09/2010 03:43:14 PM 798 Views
Certainly it can. Legolas - 26/09/2010 12:35:56 PM 796 Views
You know, gen eds typically include a language. *NM* Ghavrel - 26/09/2010 07:28:57 PM 314 Views
Yes, but other things as well. Legolas - 26/09/2010 08:08:20 PM 734 Views
Interesting Larry - 27/09/2010 03:14:00 AM 890 Views
Re: Interesting Legolas - 27/09/2010 11:04:37 AM 803 Views
You don't have to prove it's economically valid? Ghavrel - 27/09/2010 08:31:46 PM 819 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) (beat.) - 25/09/2010 04:54:40 PM 936 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) everynametaken - 25/09/2010 07:38:29 PM 860 Views
The amount of German is more surprising. Joel - 25/09/2010 07:55:29 PM 614 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Morgawse - 26/09/2010 12:07:19 AM 875 Views
They should have asked about second languages rather than foreign languages. Tim - 26/09/2010 11:34:27 AM 730 Views
Aye, they should have. Legolas - 26/09/2010 12:26:51 PM 836 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Stephen - 27/09/2010 03:18:30 PM 772 Views
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