Re: [langue-fr] L'anglais est-il une langue universelle ?

[Keld Jørn Simonsen]

On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 07:23:11PM -0800, Patrick Andries wrote:
> 
> However, the questions --  as I see them --  are : should they all speak
> only English as a foreign language, why do they learn only one foreign
> language (just next to them there are 100 millions native German
> speakers...) and could they not automatically switch to English when a
> foreigner is perceived (and imagine for a brief moment that the person may
> actually speak their own language, a Belgian in the Netherlands, a Finn in
> Sweden) ?

In Denmark, where I live, people generally learn more than one foreign language in
school. I had 3 foreign languages (en, de, fr) , and I attended high school
as as math-phys student. The language students in high school have more
languages than that. High school attandants (aged 16-19) today may have
a number of languages to pick from, including en, de, fr, ru, es, and Latin.
Usually people having attended Danish high school have had 3 foreign languages.
Whether they then can speak it is another question.

keld