Languages? (2 Viewers)

[s2ophie]

I'm doing Advance Italian and Introductory Spanish for first year and dropping one of them for second year.

 

[fitz33]

Originally posted by reynaldo
heres some statistics, in case you are interested;

those stats are misleading though because they taught about the second language learnt..it doesnt take into account that 24% of people in the EU learn german as their first language (against 16% french).

if you actually go to the eurobarometer thing they talk about which is here:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/policies/lang/languages/lang/europeanlanguages_en.html
you will find that the three most common languages spoken in the EU are:
english (47%)
german (32%)
and then french (28%)

german is also the 10th most spoken language in the world, and french is 14th
http://www.krysstal.com/spoken.html

 

[Ashleet]

German is the official language of the european union - so obviously has more relevance than french

 

[Avicenna]

I don't know if this is relevant here but i've heard that the only classical language to be used in everyday life is Classical Arabic in the Middle East where it is used in writing letters, news, all printed material even ads..

Now that's quite interesting.

 

[Annababanana]

I'm doing Beginners Italian. I've never learnt the language before so I hope I can pick it up relatively quickly!

Does anyone know how good the lecturers' are for Beginners Italian at Syd Uni?



Anna