LL-L "Language survival" 2005.09.09 (09) [E]

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From: Ingmar Roerdinkholder <ingmar.roerdinkholder at WORLDONLINE.NL>
Subject: LL-L "Language survival" 2005.09.09 (04) [E]

No, that is not true at all, at least not for the Netherlands, the first
time we learned English, and French and German, was at the age of twelve/
thirteen, at secondary school, and only since a few years English is
taught two years or so earlier.
And English daily from the age of four? Not here at least!

Ingmar

>Críostóir Ó Ciardha wrte:
>>Heather, the reason British schoolchildren (of which I was one) are
abysmal
>at languages is that they only start learning them at the age of eleven,
and
>only then once or twice a week. What is more, teaching quality varies from
>total immersion to little more than "ecoutez et répetez" from the
>blackboard. Cognitive determinism has nothing to do with it. If British
>schoolchildren were taught French immersion daily from age four as English
>is taught on the continen! t, they would be fluent in that language.

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