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| quote: | Originally posted by nekholm
And now, for some reason, everyone's whining their asses off because it's mandatory. As a Swedish-speaking Finn, I can't help but wonder, why? What is so horrible about learning a third language, and espescially Swedish? |
Because Sweden owned Finland back in the days. And of course, Finns don't want that in their face.
| quote: | Probably because, range wise, it makes more sense to learn Dutch than Swedish... and Dutch is spoken only by some 20 million people in very specific regions of the world. Given how learning a language is often a laborious task, you might expect the government to make mandatory the study of a language which is either massively present in global politics or widely used in your country.
French, German, Mandarin, and Spanish are much better candidates for a mandatory 3rd language, I reckon. |
...wat
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