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Kronos1000
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posted December 29, 2007 08:56 AM |
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What languages do/did you have to learn at school
This is just out of curiosity, I live in the Netherlands and appart from our native language, Dutch, we have to learn: English, German, French and if choose so we can also learn Spanish I think this is too much so I made this thread to compare it to different countries.
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Keldorn
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posted December 29, 2007 10:34 AM |
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I live in Hungary and we have many choices about learning languages. Firstly you can choose between German and English. You learn it for 8 years than you CAN choose a second language: English/German (not your primary), French or Spanish. Some of the schools teach Russian and Latin as well, but they are both third languages, you have to study the previous 2 before them. Even the second language is optional, so there aren't much people studying the third.
As for me, I've taken up English as primary, and Spanish as secondory language. I don't plan to take up any third at all.
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antipaladin
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posted December 29, 2007 10:34 AM |
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hebrew first,then english...then arabic,then swiched to russian
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kookastar
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posted December 29, 2007 10:42 AM |
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I learnt German for 6 years, loved it 
Can't remember much now though :|
At the school I taught at last year the kid's learnt Italian or Japanese
I am a strong advocate of learning languages other than English... I really need to practise what I preach...
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Mytical
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posted December 29, 2007 10:42 AM |
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Edited by Mytical at 12:24, 29 Dec 2007.
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French. Could speak and understand it spoken ok, but reading and writing were beyond me. Forgot most of it. Now I just know a few phrases in it, spanish, and latin (don't know if it is ancient or 'modern' latin to be honest). Also know how to say I don't speak German in German.
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Elvin
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posted December 29, 2007 11:31 AM |
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At school we were taught English and French but I have forgotten most of my French. If I read something in French I'll understand some things but no writing for me either  Je ne parlais French 
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evilhydra
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posted December 29, 2007 11:40 AM |
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english and arabic.
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wog_edn
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posted December 29, 2007 11:43 AM |
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Norwegian... pathetic I know english and then we can choose between german, french and spanish. I think it's possible to choose russian too 
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TDL
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posted December 29, 2007 01:33 PM |
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It all varies here, depending on school and the primary subject focus. Me, for 10 years I've been studying French, though I swapped A level with B level this year, stopped studying Russian which I studied for 4 years and took up English classes so I can get to the state exam.
Of course, I also have this lithuanian language that I am forced to study...
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posted December 29, 2007 02:05 PM |
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Since I started going to school in Ukraine and finished it in Israel the languages I've learnt in schools are:
Russian, Ukranian, English, Hebrew, Arabic.
Of course, I've totally forgotten Ukranian and Arabic by now because I never use them.
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posted December 29, 2007 02:38 PM |
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I grew up with English video games and subbed television series. I think that really helped in learning English Hence I dispise the way more and more TV shows are dubbed and the like...
Aside from Dutch and English, we had French and German. I sucked at the latter two though.
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2ndHero
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posted December 29, 2007 03:34 PM |
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In Finland we have to study English and Swedish, and we can choose German, French and Russian. I have learned German, English and Swedish.
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radar
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posted December 29, 2007 06:02 PM |
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English, German, French, where I hate German and learnt French for 3 years in primary school and I remember nothing.
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Daystar
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posted December 29, 2007 06:04 PM |
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English, and I'm learning Latin. On my own I'm learning Swedish and Icelandic.
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wog_edn
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posted December 29, 2007 06:09 PM |
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Icelandic isn't that hard really I understand much of it, but harder to write/speak
I want to learn latin 
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Daystar
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posted December 29, 2007 07:09 PM |
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Latin is pretty easy. I recomend the series "Ecce Romani!" Its a course of latin books that makes it easy and fun to learn, in an understandable format, with lots of charts at the end.
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wog_edn
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posted December 29, 2007 07:15 PM |
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I am REALLY bad at languages have had german for five years and can't talk, nor write tried to learn latin, but didn't understand it 
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posted December 29, 2007 07:47 PM |
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my native langueghe is icelandic but i also have too learn english and danish
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antipaladin
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posted December 29, 2007 07:49 PM |
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I'd love to learn latin or french,but there isent an option for this yet.
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Lord_of_Chaos
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posted December 29, 2007 08:11 PM |
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Well, in the elementary school that I went to, English and French were mandatory. High school was the same, but there were also some Spanish classes you could take as an option, but I didn't take them. Pretty much everywhere in Quebec it's like this, unless you go to a completely french school. And now that I'm in college, there's quite a few different language classes. I know there's German, Spanish and I think there might be Chinese too, but that one I'm kind of if-y on.
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