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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 1210 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Floffe - 24/09/2010 01:49:32 PM 643 Views
Answering the survey myself... Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:04:39 PM 645 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Camilla - 24/09/2010 02:10:57 PM 631 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:20:45 PM 767 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Camilla - 24/09/2010 02:24:01 PM 654 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Lordling - 24/09/2010 02:14:52 PM 687 Views
We have a similar situation in Belgium. Legolas - 24/09/2010 02:32:25 PM 549 Views
It is all double dutch to me snoopcester - 24/09/2010 02:41:41 PM 633 Views
Hah! Camilla - 24/09/2010 06:58:49 PM 715 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Mark - 24/09/2010 03:32:09 PM 583 Views
That is rather sad to say the least. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:15:32 PM 819 Views
Indeed Mark - 24/09/2010 06:23:52 PM 621 Views
That's just Paris being a city of nasty people. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:32:40 PM 771 Views
I never noticed that Camilla - 24/09/2010 07:05:18 PM 656 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe jh - 24/09/2010 04:00:04 PM 702 Views
I didn't mean just in Sweden, or Scandinavia. Legolas - 24/09/2010 04:19:32 PM 675 Views
Well... jh - 24/09/2010 10:50:09 PM 594 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 05:47:09 PM 657 Views
Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:04:30 PM 612 Views
Re: Interesting. BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 06:42:02 PM 758 Views
Re: Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 07:05:44 PM 668 Views
Re: Interesting. BlackAdder - 24/09/2010 07:21:24 PM 794 Views
Re: Interesting. Legolas - 24/09/2010 08:18:30 PM 645 Views
Re: Interesting. everynametaken - 25/09/2010 08:02:30 PM 708 Views
American who just got a C+ on a French quiz reporting in. Ghavrel - 24/09/2010 06:09:31 PM 715 Views
What was it on? Legolas - 24/09/2010 06:22:35 PM 617 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe Macharius - 24/09/2010 06:16:22 PM 570 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) The_Muted_Grimaud - 24/09/2010 09:38:05 PM 758 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) beckstcw - 25/09/2010 05:49:05 AM 738 Views
Real quick ironclad - 25/09/2010 12:03:51 PM 711 Views
Self-study can be worth as much as formal classroom study, I suppose Larry - 25/09/2010 03:43:14 PM 715 Views
Certainly it can. Legolas - 26/09/2010 12:35:56 PM 720 Views
You know, gen eds typically include a language. *NM* Ghavrel - 26/09/2010 07:28:57 PM 276 Views
Yes, but other things as well. Legolas - 26/09/2010 08:08:20 PM 656 Views
Interesting Larry - 27/09/2010 03:14:00 AM 817 Views
Re: Interesting Legolas - 27/09/2010 11:04:37 AM 721 Views
You don't have to prove it's economically valid? Ghavrel - 27/09/2010 08:31:46 PM 734 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) (beat.) - 25/09/2010 04:54:40 PM 858 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) everynametaken - 25/09/2010 07:38:29 PM 783 Views
The amount of German is more surprising. Joel - 25/09/2010 07:55:29 PM 533 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Morgawse - 26/09/2010 12:07:19 AM 801 Views
They should have asked about second languages rather than foreign languages. Tim - 26/09/2010 11:34:27 AM 636 Views
Aye, they should have. Legolas - 26/09/2010 12:26:51 PM 757 Views
Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) Stephen - 27/09/2010 03:18:30 PM 692 Views
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