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Brits don't speak foreign languages
On 01/12/11 19:00, David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) wrote:
William wrote: On 30/11/11 07:17, David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) wrote: William wrote: On 29/11/11 19:47, David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) wrote: William wrote: On 29/11/11 16:21, Markku Grönroos wrote: A recently published study tells that 64% of all the Britons can speak only English. Well about 10% of the population wasn't born here, so that means that only 26% of the people born in the UK can speak a foreign language. As every child who passes through the British school system receives lessons in at least one foreign language I beg leave to doubt that survey. I know it's a century since you've been to school, but even you should know that learning a language at school doesn't mean you can speak it. I have addressed this point in another post. Poorly. Interestingly nobody else has answered it so I imagine it stands by itself. As your own position seems to be that learning languages in school is useless I'm inclined to think that you're digging yourself into a hole. I never claimed such a thing. I wonder if learning English in school did you any good. Probably not. -- William Black Free men have open minds If you want loyalty, buy a dog... |
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On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:37:04 +0100, Martin wrote:
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:15:44 +0000 (UTC), David Hatunen wrote: Then by night train to Copenhagen where neither my French nor my GErman did any damn good, but, of course, most of the Danes spoke English. Most of the Danes I know speak German as well as English. Very, very few Danes speak better German than English. It would be utterly silly for an American to use German in Denmark. |
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On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:01:50 +0100, Martin wrote in post :
: On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 10:27:40 +0100, "Tim C." wrote: On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 19:01:25 +0000, vid Horne, _the_ chancellor wrote in post : : I've been living and working in Germany and Austria since 1985, I still need to resort to English works. So I see. or words, even :-) Not dorks? :-) slap -- Tim C. |
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On 02/12/2011 4:40 AM, Jesper Lauridsen wrote:
Most of the Danes I know speak German as well as English. Very, very few Danes speak better German than English. It would be utterly silly for an American to use German in Denmark. On my visits to Denmark I was amazed not only at the number of people who spoke English, but that they spoke it so fluently. I was only in Sweden once, for a week, and stayed with a family at their summer home, so I did not get a chance to interact with as many people there as I did in Sweden, but everyone in that family, and the friends of theirs who we met, spoke excellent English. In the part of Canada where I live we all studied French in school, but most of us lose it because there is so little exposure to it. |
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Dave Smith:
On my visits to Denmark I was amazed not only at the number of people who spoke English, but that they spoke it so fluently. Do the Danes have original movies/series/soaps on TV, with Danish in subtitles? In other words: are they exposed to their daily portion of TV-English? |
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martin is also utterly silly.
True. "Martin" a écrit dans le message de groupe de discussion : ... On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:40:14 +0100, Jesper Lauridsen wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:37:04 +0100, Martin wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:15:44 +0000 (UTC), David Hatunen wrote: Then by night train to Copenhagen where neither my French nor my GErman did any damn good, but, of course, most of the Danes spoke English. Most of the Danes I know speak German as well as English. Very, very few Danes speak better German than English. I didn't say better. It would be utterly silly for an American to use German in Denmark. True. -- Martin |
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On 02/12/2011 1:30 PM, Erick T. Barkhuis wrote:
Dave Smith: On my visits to Denmark I was amazed not only at the number of people who spoke English, but that they spoke it so fluently. Do the Danes have original movies/series/soaps on TV, with Danish in subtitles? In other words: are they exposed to their daily portion of TV-English? I didn`t watch a lot of television when I was there, though I do recall watching an English language show dubbed with German. I previously mentioned my Italian neighbours who arrived here more than 60 years ago and barely speak English and by no means fluent after all those years. Yet, most of the Danes I spoke with had only a slight accents. |
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"Erick T. Barkhuis" writes:
Dave Smith: On my visits to Denmark I was amazed not only at the number of people who spoke English, but that they spoke it so fluently. Do the Danes have original movies/series/soaps on TV, with Danish in subtitles? In other words: are they exposed to their daily portion of TV-English? Yes, they do. They also (like everyone) listen to pop music in English. |
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