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Post by Flick on Nov 5, 2005 14:46:56 GMT
I get your drift.
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fridolf
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Post by fridolf on May 7, 2006 11:36:21 GMT
I mostly listen to Swedish music, but one if my favorite bands is English: Robson & Jerome! They´re good! =)
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Post by wilderbeest on May 7, 2006 22:21:50 GMT
Are you from Sweden then?
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Post by fridolf on May 8, 2006 16:26:56 GMT
Nope, from Finland. But 6% of the Finnish population is Shwedishspoken and I´m one of them. Finland has two official languages, just like Ireland. So my mothertongue is Swedish, which is why I listen to Swedish music and watch Swedish telly.
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Post by wilderbeest on May 9, 2006 14:56:12 GMT
Aha, that makes sense. Do most people in your area have Swedish as their mother tongue? What about school, what language are you taught in?
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Post by fridolf on May 9, 2006 18:35:04 GMT
I live in the southern part of Finland, here and in the western part is where the most Swedishspoken people lives. Everyone can choose to go to school in Swedish, as I have done. Usually all Swedishspoken do. And some Finnishspoken too actually, since if you speak Swedish you can communicate with anyone from Sweden, Norway or Denmark as the lanuages are so similar. In school we are taught everything in Swedish. In grade three we start learning Finnish, as our second language and in grade four or five we get English, German or French. When you are at the shops or something like that you should be able to get service in Swedish if you want to, but usually you won´t. There are so few of us Swedishspoken that we have to learn Finnish to survive in the community, but the Finnishspoken don´t need to learn swedish in the same way. So many Finnishspoken don´t even try to learn Swedish, unfotunetely.
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Post by Flick on May 9, 2006 20:21:47 GMT
Robson and Jerome are classic.
A nice useful piece of geography there (i love geography!)
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Post by wilderbeest on May 10, 2006 13:46:07 GMT
Same here! That's really interesting about the different languages. I admire your linguistical expertise, I only speak English and a bit of German (fairly badly) and a bit of Russian (even more badly). To be able to speak three languages competantly would be amazing, but it must be difficult to learn. I have to admire all multilingual people!
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Post by Flick on May 10, 2006 21:48:39 GMT
So do i!
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Post by fridolf on May 12, 2006 14:47:07 GMT
When you start learning other languages so early on in school it´s not that hard, actually. When do you start learning any other languages in school in Britain?
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Post by wilderbeest on May 12, 2006 14:59:28 GMT
It depends on the school. I learned French from when I was 9, but some schools start earlier and some later. Most teach French as the first foreign language. We did latin from 11. Then when we were 12 we had a "language carousel" year, we spent half a term on each of German, Russian, Japanese, Ancient Greek and Spanish then the next year we chose two languages (any of them including French) to carry on with. Most people chose French as one of them because you've been learning it for longer, but I really didn't like French so I chose German and Russian, and did both of those to GCSE. At first Ii really liked Russian because I found it easy to learn the new alphabet, and I wasn't too keen on German, but then I found Russian grammar really hard and German seemed to make a lot more sense to me so then I liked German more and was less keen on Russian. I didn't carry on with any language past GCSE (16 years old) and now can hardly remember any Russian except for the alphabet but I can still just about get along in German well enough for someone to understand what I'm trying to say even if it isn't quite right. I think that at the moment there's a move to try and start children learning languages at an earlier age; it's one of those things which is a lot easier to pick up when you're younger.
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Post by terfle on May 12, 2006 16:47:19 GMT
indeedy, you lose the knack at about year 7 they say. as for music, i adore israeli artists becuase they come from all different backgrounds and styles (my mums israeli) so my favourite ones are enrico macias, sarit hadad, eyal golan and ofra haza. out of all of them, i adore ofra haza, she was one of the best israeli singers EVER. i love the arabic and yemeite tunes, especially hers, my mum grew up with it and passed it on to me ;D
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Post by Flick on May 13, 2006 15:29:26 GMT
I learnt french fromabout the age of nine too. I learnt french and german up until gcse (german lessons were great fun with Mrs Kerry, weren't they Wilderbeest and Captain Annie!) then i carried on with german at a-level (why??) it was hard.
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Post by Captain Annie on May 13, 2006 19:15:19 GMT
we were sooooo naughty in those lessons! its a wonder we ever got any work done
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Post by wilderbeest on May 13, 2006 21:16:27 GMT
Erm, we didn't ever get any work done...
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