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I was talking to an Albanian with very good English about the various languages… |
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Why do I want to know? Because it's easier to learn a language when you'… |
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@meganL I went to public school in California. I didn’t have a foreign langua… |
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@younata Wow, I'm surprised. I also grew up in CA (in the '70s and '… |
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@meganL yeah, I know my school districts (separate school districts for k-8 and… |
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@meganL I also know that there are private schools that do full immersion. But … |
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@younata Yup. It's not so much when people *could* have first encountered a… |
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@meganL First took French in a Canadian (BC) public school in Grade 4 (10 years… |
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@casseagull I sure wish I'd had required language classes earlier than I di… |
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Post #Axg4y2mdPi2xvhZuG8 by [email protected] |
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@meganL In my case I actually found the French education I received really haph… |
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@meganL we start Irish at 5, which not a foreign language, of course (perish th… |
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@Iwillyeah Yeah, I wondered whether to say "second" language, but the… |
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@meganL in terms of vocab, French is much closer to English. If you have good s… |
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@Iwillyeah Thank you. I have heard and read a lot of Irish folk complaining abo… |
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@meganL 9/10 people will tell you that. Everyone assumes it's a common sens… |
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@meganL I grew up speaking English, so I guess I learnt a foreign language at b… |
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@ColmDonoghue Yeah, it was difficult chosing the phrase becausue "second l… |
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@meganL formal at 15, public school. Informal from local friends starting aroun… |
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@kellyromanych Yeah, I definitely started learning some Spanish earlier than ju… |
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@meganL 11, in a uk comprehensive (which is ‘public’ in the uk. We have a w… |
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@sambeaven Heh. That's why I specified the funding because the naming in th… |
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@meganL Latin; 13; private. |
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@marcas My Catholic HS offered Latin, but I didn't take it at least partly… |
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@meganL I was around 8 in a state school in the UK, about 1961. The headteacher… |
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@camelleopard That's very nice and I'm sure it comes in handy. |
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@meganL 9-10? Mid elementary school is when we started learning English. But we… |
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@stephanie I'm surprised it was as late as that in France. Has it started a… |
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@meganL France? :p and no I think it's still the same. They teach reading a… |
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@stephanie LOL Major brain fart. I think I was confusing you with someone else.… |
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@meganL hahaha no worries. Québec teaches English for longer than other provin… |
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@stephanie Oh, wow, I didn't know that about New Brunswick.I first had a re… |
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@stephanie one of the languages that had a stricter teacher when I got back fro… |
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@meganL 7th grade (junior high) public school (age 12 for me). French. (Later t… |
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@meganL Second side bar: you and I grew up in SoCal with a large Spanish-speaki… |
