Re: CHAT: A slightly less forbidden experiment?

* Grandsire, C.A. (grandsir@natlab.research.philips.com) [991207 21:11]:
> Irina Rempt wrote:
/snip/
> >
> > Yes; they're exposed to Turkish as well as Dutch at school (though
> > not enough to their taste; they're peeved that only the Turkish kids
> > are allowed Turkish lessons :-) so the fact that people "talk with
> > different sounds" is nothing unusual.
>
>         Turkish kids can have Turkish lessons in a Dutch school? Wow! I think
> I'll never see such a thing in France for the Arabic kids before a long
> time! (anyway, it's against the language policy of France, which is:
> French and only French).
Norway sides with the Netherlands here, kids are supposed to have their
mother tongue in school, as well as Norwegian of course. It's not always
feasible though, with lack of teachers and materials etc., so the
quality of teaching varies a lot. And of course there are right-wingers
and liberalists etc. that wants to take that opportunity away.

Furthermore, sami and finnish at least are 'norwegian' tongues; there's
sami people all over the place, and in the Eastern part of the
northernmost county, Finnmark, there is (was) a sizeable Finnish
population (fled bad times in Finland last century or so.)


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