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⌈ Secret Post #665 ⌋

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[Ecstasy by Irvine Welsh]

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[Philip Quast, Cleopatra]

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[Hell's Kitchen]

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[Tin Man]

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[Waldo/Carmen]

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[Code Geass]

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[Cowboy Bebop, Spike/Vicious]

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[The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou]

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[NOT a repeat; was resized]

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[Andy Samberg/Mark Wahlberg, SNL]

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[CSI: NY, Yugioh]

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[ER]

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[William Fichtner]

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[Yugioh GX]

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[Jeeves&Wooster]

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[Tantei Gakuen Q / Detective Academy Q]

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[batman RP]

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[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]

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[Axis Powers Hetalia]

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[Transformers]

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[Boku no Pico]

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[The Podge & Rodge Show]

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[Ron Weasley/Rupert Grint > Draco Malfoy/Tom Felton; LOL]

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[Stargate: Atlantis]

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[Supernatural]

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[Babylon 5]

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[Yakitate!! Japan, Summire 16 Sai!!, Addicted to curry]

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[Blue Beetle (Paco) and Avatar (Sokka)]

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Well it's not like all Finns are fluent in three or more languages, either; it's enough to pass the courses. ;) I studied Swedish for 10 years and hated nearly every moment of it, so I doubt I could order food with my skills. I understand a lot, though; it's just my active use that's very much lacking. Especially after I started Japanese; the last time I was in Sweden and had to ask for help in a store, I almost started speaking Japanese. It's a good thing that most clerks in the stores in Haparanda speak Finnish!

Here both Swedish and a foreign language are compulsory through high school or other post 9th grade education. In the university people need to take a course or two of both Swedish and a foreign language. For language majors (e.g. English philology) they also need basic and advanced studies in another foreign language, which usually means a minimum of 1,5 years of study. However, if they've taken an extra language in high school, it's possible to just take a test to prove that they speak it well enough.

I have to say that I am seriously jealous. Speaking as a Canadian who speaks sketchy French, is studying Japanese and has a cursory knowledge of German - I only WISH my school had even offered that kind of material. I was in French Immersion for seven years - I lived in a small town, so if you wanted to learn a third language, Spanish became available in 9th grade. They used to teach German at the highschool but they cut it for budget reasons - and *forget* about trying to learn any Asian languages, pbff. Now I'm in university and I want to minor in Linguistics and cram in as many languages as I can... and I can't help but really, really wish I could have learned this stuff younger. Once I tried my hand at getting into languages, it was like only just realizing I've been missing an arm all my life or something. BAWW.

I've heard about schools in Europe placing more emphasis on languages - or not even just schools, but the environment in general means you can't help but learn multiple languages. I'd hazard that smaller-sized countries (geographically speaking) are probably the big reason why language is more valued - you've got more languages in a smaller space, whereas here it's English-speaking from the polar bears to Florida. It's really depressing, I gotta say.

/blabblabgush but really. I think it's awesome that you can wrangle your way around so many languages, even if you're not fluent in all of them. :P

Well, usually it's only French and German on offer for other languages; bigger schools may have Spanish. I haven't seen Japanese anywhere besides the university and one of those schools that have lessons in the evenings, where you can just take one course and pay for it. The university here has a rather nice selection; I think that they've got also Italian and Russian, at least. No Chinese or Korean, though; a friend had to study Chinese someplace else. The Helsinki university probably has an even wider selection.

Yeah, I'm sure that every European has experienced the alien feeling of not having any idea what the people around them are saying. ;) Going to Italy was really creepy because I don't speak the language at all. It's also common to have tv series etc from other European countries and at least in Finland we don't dub them, so it shows people why it might be good to learn other languages. I grew up watching German police series and picked up some phrases from there.

Good luck with your studies! :)

Why is it that you have to learn Swedish? I'm from Sweden and I had no idea you had to. I mean, I can understand perhaps having basic knowledge, but 10 years..! Especially if you don't like it ;) That's basically how long we have mandatory English, along with at least 4 years of a third language (Spanish/German/French). I'm quite puzzled. But in the end you win, because you can leave school with four languages in you backpack. :)

It's an official language in Finland thanks to the time we spent under Sweden's control, so everyone must speak it. Most people start it in 7th grade, though, (English in 3rd) so it's more like 6 years and maybe a random course or two afterwards. There's been a lot of talk about making it optional for the high school final exams because lots of people have failed because of it. I'm not sure what the situation at the moment is; I think they made the exam optional, but everyone still needs to take the courses.

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