From:	Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject:	the value of education (was: Thoughts: Sourcebook Ideas)
Date:	Wed, 14 Jul 1999 11:51:09 +0200

According to Dennis Steinmeijer, at 1:08 on 14 Jul 99, the word on
the street was...

> > She spoke Dutch, fluent English, good French, usable German and usable
> > Spanish (these all confirmed by observation) and considered this
> linguistic
> > skill as nothing particularly special.
>
> Yes, we all get english class till we drop dead from english overdose. Also
> we have quite extensive courses in german, french and sometimes spanish.
> Though the latter three are not mandatory.

Not sure about your area, but German and French were mandatory for the
first few years in the high school I went to (though they didn't teach
Spanish at all there). English was mandatory for all five years (six, in
my case ;) but still there were (too) many in my class who read and spoke
it very poorly.

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