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In France too, there's an effort to start English several years earlier. But there's no serious effort to train teachers or recruit native speakers, so the effect is likely to be mitigated.

We have had battles on ET over language. One idea was to create a multi-lingual site, or a cluster of blogs in different languages, but these schemes come up against major software problems (not feasible with Scoop) and would also create extra workload in terms of admin and translation. Yet using only English probably excludes a majority of Europeans, even though it's the most common second language...

PS: Don't say Latin's no use, or PerClupi will deal with you ;-)

When locusts move on, they leave nothing behind

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Jul 3rd, 2008 at 08:43:25 AM EST
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Clearly German should be next:

(source: Eurobarometer 243: Europeans and Their Languages - last debated here)

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done. — John M. Keynes

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Jul 3rd, 2008 at 08:54:08 AM EST
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In Saarland and the border region of BW, the goal is even to start with French, however, lack of well trained teachers is here a problem, too.

Gemach, gemach
by Martin (weiser.mensch(at)googlemail.com) on Thu Jul 3rd, 2008 at 09:46:39 AM EST
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