I’m not sure it makes sense to call Swedish a “foreign language” in Finland. Both Swedish and Finnish are official languages in Finland. Finnish speaking students are required to take Swedish and Swedish speaking students are required to take Finnish.
Yellow = learns to move to Germany
Blue = learns to look educated
Red = learns to go on holidays
Swedish is that much taught in Finland, because it’s official language in Finland besides Finnish.
I don’t remember, or know, all school terms, but it’s often referred to as “second national language”, of course for people who don’t speak Finnish or Swedish would likely still be learning Swedish in schools.
Top side Belgium is French not English.
What is the most taught language in Britain? Is it Latin?
I could argue that Swedish is also the most taught language in Sweden too, as many immigrants live there. SFI definitely has more students.
Are there any countries here which don’t have English as 1st or 2nd?
Edit: ahh found the answer in the chart- Luxembourg is the only country that doesn’t speak English as first language, nor teach it as first or second foreign language.
Russian? Yeah, no 😀
I dont know why i learned french for 5 years to forget everything after a few years.. in northern Germany danish would be way more useful
French and Dutch “foreign” languages in Belgium. Sh*t’s about to explode.
Loads of people on here have severe reading comprehension issues. Guess English is their fourth foreign language…
Swedish is only *second* place in Finland? Wow, we really fell off. We might want to send you a peacekeeping force. You know, to keep Swedish-speakers safe.
🇫🇷 France 🤝 Spain 🇪🇸
Swedish is our official language god dammit, its was only official language during grand duchy era for a century before finnish language got even same status.
I will puke…
French in Albania?? Wtf 😂. It’s English and after that Italian. Who makes those maps?!
Not really sure about Portugal nowadays. I feel that a lot of students choose spanish because It’s easier. I chose french and it was a much smaller class.
This map has several mistakes:
Luxemburg: german and french
Belgium: both parts should be english (fr: and dutch)
Netherlands: german and french
Bulgaria: german and russian
Estonia: estonian and russian
Germany: french and spanish
Lichtenstein: french and english
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For some countries, several languages are specified because the data for upper and primary education are recorded separately. The authors of the map obviously did not read the source properly or deliberately omitted languages.
The Netherlands can’t be true. The most taught foreign language is English, and the second most taught foreign language is German for sure.
As a Brit I was really confused why you were looking at 2nd most taught foreign language at first. Get it now 😂
Spanish in Ireland?!? Usually French & German are your only options & most took French!
Now maybe it’s changed in the last 15 years! But our town definitely didn’t have Spanish as an option in any of the 4-5 secondary schools! (There were occasionally optional spanish classes, & you could apply & sit a junior/leaving cert in spanish).
I’m just happy they didn’t have Irish as the second language XD
Petition for making Danish the EU language! We’re almost there! RØD GRØD MED FLØDE! LET’S HEAR IT!
Praise to the Walloon people losing their time and energy by learning Dutch while their Flemish counterparts ignore French and go for English.
Swedish is not a foreign language in Finland, but one of the two national ones.
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[data from Eurostat](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/EDUC_UOE_LANG01/default/table?lang=en)
In before questions – Italian is for Malta.
I’m not sure it makes sense to call Swedish a “foreign language” in Finland. Both Swedish and Finnish are official languages in Finland. Finnish speaking students are required to take Swedish and Swedish speaking students are required to take Finnish.
Yellow = learns to move to Germany
Blue = learns to look educated
Red = learns to go on holidays
Swedish is that much taught in Finland, because it’s official language in Finland besides Finnish.
I don’t remember, or know, all school terms, but it’s often referred to as “second national language”, of course for people who don’t speak Finnish or Swedish would likely still be learning Swedish in schools.
Top side Belgium is French not English.
What is the most taught language in Britain? Is it Latin?
I could argue that Swedish is also the most taught language in Sweden too, as many immigrants live there. SFI definitely has more students.
Are there any countries here which don’t have English as 1st or 2nd?
Edit: ahh found the answer in the chart- Luxembourg is the only country that doesn’t speak English as first language, nor teach it as first or second foreign language.
Russian? Yeah, no 😀
I dont know why i learned french for 5 years to forget everything after a few years.. in northern Germany danish would be way more useful
French and Dutch “foreign” languages in Belgium. Sh*t’s about to explode.
Loads of people on here have severe reading comprehension issues. Guess English is their fourth foreign language…
Swedish is only *second* place in Finland? Wow, we really fell off. We might want to send you a peacekeeping force. You know, to keep Swedish-speakers safe.
🇫🇷 France 🤝 Spain 🇪🇸
Swedish is our official language god dammit, its was only official language during grand duchy era for a century before finnish language got even same status.
I will puke…
French in Albania?? Wtf 😂. It’s English and after that Italian. Who makes those maps?!
Not really sure about Portugal nowadays. I feel that a lot of students choose spanish because It’s easier. I chose french and it was a much smaller class.
This map has several mistakes:
Luxemburg: german and french
Belgium: both parts should be english (fr: and dutch)
Netherlands: german and french
Bulgaria: german and russian
Estonia: estonian and russian
Germany: french and spanish
Lichtenstein: french and english
​
For some countries, several languages are specified because the data for upper and primary education are recorded separately. The authors of the map obviously did not read the source properly or deliberately omitted languages.
[https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/e0f69418-d915-11ed-a05c-01aa75ed71a1/language-en/format-PDF/source-283957218](https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/e0f69418-d915-11ed-a05c-01aa75ed71a1/language-en/format-PDF/source-283957218) (Page 88)
The Netherlands can’t be true. The most taught foreign language is English, and the second most taught foreign language is German for sure.
As a Brit I was really confused why you were looking at 2nd most taught foreign language at first. Get it now 😂
Spanish in Ireland?!? Usually French & German are your only options & most took French!
Now maybe it’s changed in the last 15 years! But our town definitely didn’t have Spanish as an option in any of the 4-5 secondary schools! (There were occasionally optional spanish classes, & you could apply & sit a junior/leaving cert in spanish).
I’m just happy they didn’t have Irish as the second language XD
Petition for making Danish the EU language! We’re almost there! RØD GRØD MED FLØDE! LET’S HEAR IT!
Praise to the Walloon people losing their time and energy by learning Dutch while their Flemish counterparts ignore French and go for English.
Swedish is not a foreign language in Finland, but one of the two national ones.