Most studied foreign languages in Slovenia

Language Critic   Mon Dec 28, 2009 10:54 am GMT
Attendance at language courses on the rise
In the school year 2005/2006 continuing education providers carried out 4,011 languages courses; the courses were attended by 27,438 people, which was 6% more than in the previous school year. Most participants studied English; the second most popular language was German and more people than a year before studied French. In addition to Italian, Spanish and Russian, participants studied Czech, Hungarian, Danish, Portuguese and Swedish as well as Japanese, Chinese and Arabic.

Between 2001 and 2006 the share of people attending English language courses has decreased by 2.6%, German by 6.0% and Italian by 0.4%. On the other hand, the shares of people attending other language courses have increased: French by 3.9%, Spanish by 1.7% and Russian by 1.3%.

http://www.stat.si/eng/novica_prikazi.aspx?ID=1465
love me for ever   Mon Dec 28, 2009 1:17 pm GMT
Who cares?? Slovenia is so tiny.....
Woman   Mon Dec 28, 2009 1:22 pm GMT
It's small but talented.
Mojca from Piran   Mon Dec 28, 2009 10:47 pm GMT
Slovenia is the jewel of the Adriatic.
fraz   Tue Dec 29, 2009 4:41 pm GMT
I would imagine the pattern is similar to the rest of Eastern Europe, where German is understood among the over-35s but is now being replaced by English among the younger generations.
Croatian   Tue Dec 29, 2009 4:54 pm GMT
Slovenia is the jewel of the Adriatic.


Do you have more than 10 kms of sea-side? :-)
Slovenian   Tue Dec 29, 2009 7:17 pm GMT
Do you have more than 10 brain-cells?
Wintereis   Thu Dec 31, 2009 3:25 am GMT
Well, I personally have no sea-side, but my country has aprox. 19,924 km of coastline. These range from arctic to tropical. I don't know if I would call my nation a jewel of anything, but it certainly has many good points.

I am sure that I have more than 10 brain cells, as I am still alive, which would not be the case if I did not have more than 10.

The Slovenian's may not have much of a coastline, but they do have good taste in music:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCHCUv1Rh0o
Guest   Thu Dec 31, 2009 4:23 pm GMT
I like this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx-fhi8iIxI
Wintereis   Tue Jan 05, 2010 10:22 am GMT
<<I like this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx-fhi8iIxI>>

Nah, its all for speed and virtuosity. It has little to no depth.
Guest   Tue Jan 05, 2010 11:54 am GMT
No depth, just fun. I like it. How typical of you to search for depth in everything; reminds me of Moby Dick, ha ha.
Wintereis   Tue Jan 05, 2010 7:18 pm GMT
Moby-Dick invites depth. It is, after all, a sea novel. And melville has great deal of fun with it too. For instance, when he uses Christian doctrine to justify Ishmael's paganism. Orson Wells, reading from Loomings, "Moby-Dick):


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQonowKNo0s&feature=related
Guest   Tue Jan 05, 2010 7:35 pm GMT
You're right about Moby Dick. I apologize, that was an inappropriate joke. But, really, there never was much depth to the Flight of the Bumblebee so you can't dismiss the interpretation (or the piece) like that.

>>Although the original orchestral version mercifully assigns portions of the sixteenth-note runs to various instruments in tandem, in the century since its composition the piece has become a standard showcase for solo instrumental virtuosity, whether on the original violin or on practically any other melodic instrument.<<
Wintereis   Wed Jan 06, 2010 6:25 am GMT
<<You're right about Moby Dick. I apologize, that was an inappropriate joke. But, really, there never was much depth to the Flight of the Bumblebee so you can't dismiss the interpretation (or the piece) like that.>>

I didn't dismiss it. It is just not one of my favorite pieces. It doesn't mean that I don't like it.