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MunsterMan
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What age do children in the UK/Australia/NZ/America etc. normally begin learning a second language?
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Bullitt
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Whatever age their parents begin teaching them!
Really however, in England it's normally around 11 years of age when children are taught French or German in schools here.
Then occasionally, in certain parts of England, they eventually get taught English.
Really however, in England it's normally around 11 years of age when children are taught French or German in schools here.
Then occasionally, in certain parts of England, they eventually get taught English.
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cyRil
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Welsh is brought into our education at about 5. Well it was when I was that age anyway.
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shtove
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Bullitt @ Jan 7 2010, 11:25 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>
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cyRil
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (shtove @ Jan 6 2010, 11:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>
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Sir Speedy
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Foreign languages are taught here at age 11. Welsh is taught from the beginning, I think.
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gingergenius
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I learnt French from age 4. Not that there was any point - I started learning Italian at 13 and by GCSE both were as good as the other.
The best time to learn a 2nd language is when you're a baby and acquiring words like nobody's business. The next best time is puberty onwards. 4-11 is pretty f***ing pointless because nobody remembers anything they learn here.
The best time to learn a 2nd language is when you're a baby and acquiring words like nobody's business. The next best time is puberty onwards. 4-11 is pretty f***ing pointless because nobody remembers anything they learn here.
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Thingimubob
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (cyRil of Ospreylia @ Jan 6 2010, 11:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>
Was straight away for me, my parents decided to put me in a Welsh language primary+secondary
But yeah I started German in year 7 (11 years old) then we started French as well in year 8 (12 years old).
All my friends from English schools find it completely confusing that we learnt our modern languages through Welsh.
Was straight away for me, my parents decided to put me in a Welsh language primary+secondary
But yeah I started German in year 7 (11 years old) then we started French as well in year 8 (12 years old).
All my friends from English schools find it completely confusing that we learnt our modern languages through Welsh.
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wigan_rlfc
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Was taught German in school from 11-16 and French as an extra language from 12-14. Don't think the French was a good idea as it is hard enough to learn a second language in the classroom but still, the teachers thought it would be a good idea. We were allowed to drop one language for GCSE's.
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shtove
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (cyRil of Ospreylia @ Jan 7 2010, 12:12 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>
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cyRil
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (shtove @ Jan 7 2010, 01:40 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>
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I think it's called satire.
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Are you being deliberately obtuse?
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I think it's called satire.
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Are you being deliberately obtuse?
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shtove
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (cyRil of Ospreylia @ Jan 7 2010, 01:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>
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I think it's called satire.
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Are you being deliberately obtuse?
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St Helens RLFC
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Fa'atau82
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Yeah it's 11 in England. I think i came out of school knowing about 5 lines of French. Yet, i can speak samoan and turkish better, and i've never been taught. So was it the teaching? I think so!
Merde du tete.
Merde du tete.
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redunderthebed
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At school we were basically taught Indonesian from junior primary (the school you go to when you turn 5) up to primary school when you finished that you had the choice of indonesian or japanese in high school.
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Nickdnz
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (MunsterMan @ Jan 7 2010, 12:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>
In NZ we learn Maori in education early, but noone takes it at all seriously, and I've left knowing very little. Languages are on offer at my school from about the age of 12, however it was not compulsory, and I've left my school with an encyclopedic knowledge of pornographic knock-knock jokes in portuguese. I can also speak very limited spanish.
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Laetca
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (gingergenius @ Jan 7 2010, 01:18 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>
The part about puberty being the best time other than early infancy to learn a secondary language is nonsense. Secondary languages are best taught when first acquiring language, after that you store new languages in a different part of the brain, making it different/harder to learn a new language.
The part about puberty being the best time other than early infancy to learn a secondary language is nonsense. Secondary languages are best taught when first acquiring language, after that you store new languages in a different part of the brain, making it different/harder to learn a new language.
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bristol-iain
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I was taught French from Year 7 to GCSE, I chose to take it to AS-Level but got a (very spectaular) U . Taught German from Year 7-9 when I decided not to do it at GCSE.
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Thingimubob
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (bristol-iain @ Jan 7 2010, 04:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>
I did both German and French for my GCSE's, somehow got an A in both, dropped French as soon as I could though. I couldn't stand another 2 years with the bloody teacher. <_< I can barely remember any of my French though, which is funny considering this time 2 years ago I was preparing for my GCSE Oral exam.
Am doing German in A Level now though, and am hoping to do it in Uni too.
I did both German and French for my GCSE's, somehow got an A in both, dropped French as soon as I could though. I couldn't stand another 2 years with the bloody teacher. <_< I can barely remember any of my French though, which is funny considering this time 2 years ago I was preparing for my GCSE Oral exam.
Am doing German in A Level now though, and am hoping to do it in Uni too.
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Sir Speedy
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Ugh, our school never gave the option of another foreign language; just French. Not that there's anything wrong with French, but I'd have loved to have learned two new languages at the same time. Russian ftw.
