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Re: Interesting. Legolas Send a noteboard - 24/09/2010 07:05:44 PM
Yeah sort of but I don't think that affected it too much. We lived in Pune where most people spoke Marathi but my parents and family spoke Telugu so I picked up both.

Ah, okay. I'm used to thinking of the Dravidian languages as being spoken in the south, but I guess in the big cities of the north you have minorities speaking them too.
Hmm, I'm not sure why you think that?

Because English is an official language in India, native language to a certain amount of Indians, and generally the lingua franca among the non-Hindi-speaking regions? At least that's how I understand it. Gives India as a whole a big edge over many other countries in terms of learning English, I would think, though of course it'll depend on the region you're in.
Oh, I'm not saying the languages themselves are useless, just that my level of (non-)mastery makes them so :P

Oh, right. Yeah, I'm finding that at least for applying for jobs, it's really very little use to list all the languages you speak a little or even on an intermediate level. It's still useful when talking to native speakers or trying to read, though.
Yeah, I think more people seem to be learning Spanish though, at least in places with higher first-gen hispanic populations.

Yeah, the US is rapidly becoming a bilingual country, and Spanish is conquering the world in its own way... it won't dethrone English, I don't think, but it's a rival at least.
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Answering the survey myself... - 24/09/2010 02:04:39 PM 648 Views
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We have a similar situation in Belgium. - 24/09/2010 02:32:25 PM 552 Views
It is all double dutch to me - 24/09/2010 02:41:41 PM 636 Views
Hah! - 24/09/2010 06:58:49 PM 717 Views
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That is rather sad to say the least. - 24/09/2010 04:15:32 PM 821 Views
Indeed - 24/09/2010 06:23:52 PM 623 Views
That's just Paris being a city of nasty people. - 24/09/2010 06:32:40 PM 773 Views
I never noticed that - 24/09/2010 07:05:18 PM 658 Views
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I didn't mean just in Sweden, or Scandinavia. - 24/09/2010 04:19:32 PM 676 Views
Well... - 24/09/2010 10:50:09 PM 596 Views
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Interesting. - 24/09/2010 06:04:30 PM 614 Views
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American who just got a C+ on a French quiz reporting in. - 24/09/2010 06:09:31 PM 717 Views
What was it on? - 24/09/2010 06:22:35 PM 619 Views
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Re: /Survey: Foreign language knowledge in Europe (and elsewhere) - 25/09/2010 05:49:05 AM 739 Views
Real quick - 25/09/2010 12:03:51 PM 713 Views
Self-study can be worth as much as formal classroom study, I suppose - 25/09/2010 03:43:14 PM 717 Views
Certainly it can. - 26/09/2010 12:35:56 PM 722 Views
You know, gen eds typically include a language. *NM* - 26/09/2010 07:28:57 PM 277 Views
Yes, but other things as well. - 26/09/2010 08:08:20 PM 658 Views
Interesting - 27/09/2010 03:14:00 AM 819 Views
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You don't have to prove it's economically valid? - 27/09/2010 08:31:46 PM 736 Views
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The amount of German is more surprising. - 25/09/2010 07:55:29 PM 535 Views
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They should have asked about second languages rather than foreign languages. - 26/09/2010 11:34:27 AM 638 Views
Aye, they should have. - 26/09/2010 12:26:51 PM 759 Views
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