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From: Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net>
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On Thu, 04 Jul 2024 05:50:03 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
wrote:

>On a sunny day (Wed, 3 Jul 2024 13:46:18 +0100) it happened Martin Brown
><'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote in <v63h6r$26bjr$1@dont-email.me>:
>
>>On 03/07/2024 13:20, Jan Panteltje wrote:
>>
>>> I started learning French here ik kindergarten in the late forties..
>>> Do English ever learn French? German?
>>
>>Yes but far too late to be much use. Since Brexit there is even less 
>>teaching of modern languages. English people have now become as lazy as 
>>Americans and so expect everyone to speak English. My 1970's state 
>>secondary school had a language lab with tape recorders and headsets for 
>>everybody and taught French, German, Spanish, Greek & Latin.
>>
>>Everybody did French at first. Those that had done it at primary school 
>>had a massive head start which we never regained. If you were any good 
>>at it you could choose Latin or Greek. I chose Latin. I found I was much 
>>better at ancient languages that didn't require speaking them!
>>
>>Most educated Dutch or Swiss people I have encountered are fluent in at 
>>least three languages. I had one intern from U Twente who was brilliant.
>
>Yes, highschool here required Dutch, French, German, English, some also Latin.
>Later I did some Spanish and started on Chinese, never finised Spanish and Chinese
>would need to be there a while to get the feel of it.
>Had no problem in Spain though:-)
>
> 
>>I learned some Russian at university too (for reading scientific papers) 
>>and then later Japanese by immersion in Japan. In Belgium my Flemish was 
>>just about good enough to get by - my wife's was better.
>
>My Russian is very limited ..
>
>Watching satellite TV programs is a good way to learn the languages.
>Now they block Russian satellite TV (in English) here, only the US viewpoints allowed.

It is not blocked in the US.  If you use a VPN to tunnel into the US,
you will be able to get it over the internet.

Wonder why the EU thinks that blocking such as RT will have much
effect.

Joe Gwinn