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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4707 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 89 of 94 30 August 2012 at 10:56am | IP Logged |
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Studied English compulsorily from age 9 I think? Although I had exposure to English as a
child continuously so. French and German for me were both compulsory for four years. Under the new system it's 2 for German and 3 for French, and then you pick either for your final exam. I did Latin as well for 5 years. Russian and Swedish I have studied myself. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6903 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 90 of 94 30 August 2012 at 11:32am | IP Logged |
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I had Russian in primary school. In grade 7 I had briefly (less than a year) German,
too (the school was in the process of switching from Russian to German, and it was a bit of an experiment). In grade 8 (last) I had to change the school. There were no schools with Russian available so I went to a school with English (I had private classes in English since I started primary school anyway). Then I went to high school. Each student had to learn two languages: one that was continued (English in my case) and one learned from scratch (German, Russian, or French but for groups with continued English German was the only option anyway). I learned no German whatsoever (despite having good grades). I learned no English at school either: I was easily among the best two-three students in my class (30+ students) and lessons were just a boring repetition of whatever we'd learned years before. Not that my English was that good (B2 level in the last fourth year of high school): the average level was that low, and no one came up with the idea to split students in the groups depending on their level. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sans-serif Tetraglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4559 days ago 298 posts - 470 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, German, Swedish Studies: Danish | Message 91 of 94 30 August 2012 at 12:05pm | IP Logged |
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I started taking German in the 3rd grade, English in the 4th, Swedish in 7th and French in the 8th, and kept up with my studies in each until the end of high school. I also took about 6 months of Japanese in my second year of high school. I'm only fluent in English (and even that is thanks to attending an English speaking school for three years), but my studies gave me a good knowledge of grammar and an easy start into native speaker materials.
As for languages being offered, I think Jellito already said most that's worth saying. The general picture, in any case, is that most elementary schools (years 1-6) offer English and one other language, lower secondary schools (years 7-9) offer English, Swedish and one or two more, as do upper secondary schools (years 10-12). That's a generalization, of course, so you can find schools in rural areas teaching just English and Swedish, whereas in the cities some schools go well beyond the above. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| caam_imt Triglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 4862 days ago 232 posts - 357 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, Finnish Studies: German, Swedish | Message 92 of 94 30 August 2012 at 1:19pm | IP Logged |
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During my compulsory education only English was offered, and tuition was of bad quality :) I had to learn English at a private institute and I took only two German courses at university level. In Finland: Took all Finnish courses offered at my university (only three and extremely basic), and one more course in a folk school. I got tired of the slow pace and decided to learn on my own and through interaction with natives. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Duke100782 Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Philippines https://talktagalog.Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4488 days ago 172 posts - 240 votes Speaks: English*, Tagalog* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 93 of 94 01 September 2012 at 5:24pm | IP Logged |
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English and Filipino are taught all throughout one's schooling in the Philippines. The medium of instruction
in most subjects is English. As a freshman, I took a semester of German. I also had the opportunity to formally study Spanish during my university years. I started out as a History major (I shifted later on) where I had a lot of Spanish language subjects in my curriculum, since a lot of the primary and secondary sources of Philippine history are written in Spanish. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5567 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 94 of 94 02 September 2012 at 3:19am | IP Logged |
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Grade 7-8: French
Grade 9-12: French and Spanish (the school didn't think I could handle two languages, but I begged and they let me, and boy did I show them), plus I taught myself Esperanto University: French, German, Russian, Mandarin 1 person has voted this message useful |
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