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Although the article mentions the second language thing, Finland actually has two official languages, Finnish and Swedish. All official documents are in both, a
by cromulent 17y ago
Although the article mentions the second language thing, Finland actually has two official languages, Finnish and Swedish. All official documents are in both, and street signs are in both, with the local dominant language on top.
They also teach English at the Finnish schools.
My eldest son goes to an English school in Helsinki and he is taught Finnish, French, and of course English.
- tokenadult 17y agoThanks for reminding everyone of that. And of course Swedish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_language and Finnish (Suomi) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_language are not even cognate languages, being from two different language families. So students in Finland learning English in their school courses are learning a language with what are to them rather puzzling grammatical patterns. By contrast, many Americans don't attempt to learn any foreign language while in K-12 schooling.