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Why do you wish it wasn't English? English is the language of trade, diplomacy, and international interaction so it wouldn't at all make sense if the second language wasn't English. Hence why it's English you learn as your second language between the age of 7 (6) and 17.
Just knowing two languages isn't enough, of course, though, so from 5th grade you need to have a 3rd language too. The offered languages traditionally are French and German with most people choosing German. You then need to have that third language for at least 7 years; you can decide to change third language to something else when starting high school and then you'll have the first chosen third language for 5 years and need to have the new third language (which actually is a fourth language) for three years.
And you might even need to have a fourth language from 7th grade, but I'm not certain of whether that was implemented. It was planned though. In case it's implemented then you need to have that fourth language at least for 3 years.
So every child will speak 3 (4 if you need to have that fourth from 7th grade) languages by the time he graduates high school.
I guess what I'm getting at is as someone with English as their first language, I and people I knew weren't exposed to language learning in the same way as people whose first language is something other than English - growing up in the economically dominant language community meant it wasn't a focus. Languages aren't compulsory at all in school here.
Ah, you weren't commenting on English being the mandatory main foreign language here, but on how you wished not to be English?
And yeah here most people are trilangual or more; I for instance speak Danish, English, and German fluently. And that is quite common. And now that you need to have your third language already from 5th grade it might even become common to speak 4 languages fluently (choose a different foreign language in high school. You need to have English for at least the first 2 of the three years of high school---and then you need to have a different foreign language at least the first two years. If you choose a language you already have had previously (i.e. German or French) then you can make do with just 2 years; if you choose something else (e.g. Spanish, Italian, etc.) then you need to have it for all three years.)
Yes. Well, not English per se, but Anglophone. Or at least for the dominant language to be something else so we had to learn it.
That's got to be a cognitive boost. I only know a little French (and Latin because of my uni majors). We're supposed to be a bilingual country (English and Māori, trilingual counting NZSL), too - I really think being effectively monolingual holds us back. Language is a tool for learning and cultural insight we just aren't using.
I live in either Catawba or Saluda - my best guess is Catawba, so that's what I put in the Automap.
Stockholm province.
Swedish capital has the most development in the entire wörld, ooooh yeee.
Swedish capital has the most development in the entire wörld, ooooh yeee.
Viborg #30
Not completely sure about my choice, as I live in a small Finnish town that's located in the intersection of Viborg, Kexholm and Savolax on the game map
But I believe Viborg comes closest.
Not completely sure about my choice, as I live in a small Finnish town that's located in the intersection of Viborg, Kexholm and Savolax on the game map
But I believe Viborg comes closest.
Miwok. It's nice to live in an important trade center!
Born in Tarnovo though. Sad to see Bulgaria so under-represented.
Born in Tarnovo though. Sad to see Bulgaria so under-represented.