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Re: ARTICLE: America's biggest teacher and principal cheating scandal unfolds in Atlanta |
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Posted by Scorpio7 on Sat Jul 9 11:43:59 2011, in response to Re: ARTICLE: America's biggest teacher and principal cheating scandal unfolds in Atlanta, posted by Easy on Sat Jul 9 10:43:57 2011. In Flanders (the Dutch-speaking part), most people (at least the younger generations) speak English and / or French as a second and third language. Flemish people are usually quite a bit more fluent in English than they are in French, though most manage to at least get by in French.French is taught in school starting from the last two years of primary school, English is taught from what you would call middle school. So most high school kids have both French and English. Those interested in foreign languages can also study languages like German and Spanish. At my school, for example, students going for the languages package thus get all 4 foreign languages, or even five for those combining modern languages with Latin. In Wallonia (the French-speaking part of the country) the situation is different: most of them don't speak any Dutch at all, or very little. Their English is usually a bit better, but nowhere near the average level of the Flemish. Less time is spent on language education, and students get to choose whether they want to learn Dutch or English. Most choose English. Hopefully this will change in the future. Many Wallonian school are experimenting with so-called immersion education, where several courses (e.g. history or geography) are taught in Dutch, in an attempt to increase the students' exposure to the language. |
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