Tvångsfranskan would become a reality in 2021. Maybe got the joke the members that for a short moment forget the party’s poll.

the Liberals and the French have one thing in common. The situation of both is the right bleak. More and more municipalities are scrapping the ability to read French in the primary school. Kristianstad, Hässleholm, Osby and Östra Göinge have all recently saved away French. In other parts of the country it is in, rather than German, which disappears when municipalities cut costs. Spanish is faring so far much better.

was it 40% of the niondeklassarna who read German. And 18 per cent had French on the schedule. The German had 2015 has shrunk to 17 per cent and the French language to 14 per cent.

the Causes behind the decline is likely to be many. But it is clear that the politicians who control the school has dug a pit so deep that it will take several years to take herself out of it. Today’s system of points encourages the practice of high school students to opt out of other languages and to just bet on the English. Many teachers in the German and French turns closest to the city in language that jumps between different schools to get their teaching hours, which hardly favors the recruitment to something that already is a bristyrke. And a common perception among students is that languages other than English really is unnecessary.

after the language skills, particularly German and French. The Swedish export goes to a much larger extent than, for example, Danish companies miss out on foreign transactions due to a lack of language proficiency.

Knowledge of the language enriches in many ways other than in the wallet. But at the moment it seems to only be the economic arguments that bites. Therefore, it can be worth to keep in mind that the municipalities will save on in the day loses the companies of tomorrow.

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anders@spraktidningen.se

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