English Too Easy for Hungarians

[Francis Hult]

Wall Street Journal

 

English Too Easy for Hungarians

 

Hungary's government wants to dethrone English as the most common foreign language taught in Hungarian schools. The reason: It's just too easy to learn.

 

"It is fortunate if the first foreign language learned is not English. The initial, very quick and spectacular successes of English learning may evoke the false image in students that learning any foreign language is that simple," reads a draft bill obtained by news website Origo.hu <http://www.origo.hu/index.html>  that would amend Hungary's education laws.

 

Full story:

http://blogs.wsj.com/emergingeurope/2011/08/18/english-too-easy-for-hungarians/

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