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RE: English Speaking Crewmembers?
Posted by:
Takeo
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Date: May 26, 2001 06:49AM
<HTML>Yes Rainer,
early language education has been considered quite important in Continental European schools ever since the Great War, unlike the UK or the US.
In Belgium, for instance, in a \"classical\" shool, second language (french, dutch or german, depending on the area) teaching starts in 3rd year primary school (3rd grade in US) a rato of 4 hours / week, together with analytical grammar (sentence analysis) in view of later Latin classes. Latin is added in the 6th year of primary school. (6th grade US).
In the second year of Latin/Greek \"Humaniora\" (high school), one would typically take the following classes (compulsory), per week: Flemish, French, German, English: 3 hours / week for each language, Classical Latin: 9hrs / week, Classical Greek: 6 hrs / week. (When we were 18, we were supposed to be fluent in Latin and Greek and exams for these classes, in the last year, were oral exams either in Latin or Greek, in public). Was fun.
Total: 27 hrs of language classes out of 36 class hours of 50 minutes each.
(In the other type of high school, Latin and Greek are replaced by science classes).
Takeo.
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early language education has been considered quite important in Continental European schools ever since the Great War, unlike the UK or the US.
In Belgium, for instance, in a \"classical\" shool, second language (french, dutch or german, depending on the area) teaching starts in 3rd year primary school (3rd grade in US) a rato of 4 hours / week, together with analytical grammar (sentence analysis) in view of later Latin classes. Latin is added in the 6th year of primary school. (6th grade US).
In the second year of Latin/Greek \"Humaniora\" (high school), one would typically take the following classes (compulsory), per week: Flemish, French, German, English: 3 hours / week for each language, Classical Latin: 9hrs / week, Classical Greek: 6 hrs / week. (When we were 18, we were supposed to be fluent in Latin and Greek and exams for these classes, in the last year, were oral exams either in Latin or Greek, in public). Was fun.
Total: 27 hrs of language classes out of 36 class hours of 50 minutes each.
(In the other type of high school, Latin and Greek are replaced by science classes).
Takeo.
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