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[GCX]

In Finland we have äidinkieli which literally translates to mother tongue.

 

[Johnlenham]

Haha OK - for some reason I just thought UK/Australian schools called it something different. Obviously we speak the same language so it makes sense it would be called the same thing. But you know how you guys have goofy ways of saying shit, like "Form" instead of grade. I didn't make "Letters" up, I think there are Colleges of Letters (Liberal Arts) or degrees in letters or something b

Like others have pointed out, Americans are the ones that basterdized English, not us!

 

[Nezumi]

Yes. Here in Germany we have this and it is called German class... Our English classes are basically the same though only difference is that it starts some three years later. That is when I was a kid I think now the two languages start more or less at the same time.

 

[Deleted member 13876]

We call it English in the UK.

How pleasantly quaint.

 

[strata8]

Haha OK - for some reason I just thought UK/Australian schools called it something different. Obviously we speak the same language so it makes sense it would be called the same thing. But you know how you guys have goofy ways of saying shit, like "Form" instead of grade. I didn't make "Letters" up, I think there are Colleges of Letters (Liberal Arts) or degrees in letters or something b

In New South Wales we call them 'Year'. Makes perfect sense unlike the 'Form' and 'Grade' crap that everyone else uses.

 

[Synth_floyd]

When I taught in Japan they had "kokugo" classes which literally means "country language" which of course referred to Japanese and they learned the same shit we would learn in English class. Vocabulary, grammar, literature, etc.

 

[daripad]

In Mexico is spanish

 

[jorma]

In Finland we have äidinkieli which literally translates to mother tongue.

So that is Swedish for some and Finnish for some?

 

[Uncle]

So that is Swedish for some and Finnish for some?

Yes. Edit: also Sami in some places.

 

[Zalasta]

I think china and Korea call their native language study courses 国語 too

Indeed we do, at least in Taiwan. The thing is Chinese Mandarin is also referred to as 国語, so the term works in both definition (the study of the national and Chinese language).

 

[Goldrusher]

Flanders:

ages 3-9: "language" (Dutch)
ages 10-12: Dutch, French
ages 13-18: Dutch, French, English

 

[jorma]

Yes. Edit: also Sami in some places.

Meänkieli? It's a minority language in Sweden, but someone told me you guys just consider it a dialect? (it's the mother tounge of my mother. Would that make it my mother tounge as well? I don't speak it at all.

 

[beje]

Spanish Language and Literature, usually contracted to just "Language" (Lengua) in monolingual regions.

As far as I know, bilingual regions use the language name itself to make it short because they have different classes for both: Castellano, Catalán, Valenciano, Gallego and Euskera (or whatever is the exact spelling in the regional language).

 

[GCX]

Meänkieli? It's a minority language in Sweden, but someone told me you guys just consider it a dialect? (it's the mother tounge of my mother. Would that make it my mother tounge as well? I don't speak it at all.

Meänkieli and Sami are different things. Like you said, Mäenkieli is only classified as a dialect of Finnish.

Sami language on the other hand is the third official language of Finland (the other two being Finnish and Swedish) even though only a really really small amount of people speak it as their mother tongue.

 

[jorma]

Meänkieli and Sami are different things. Like you said, Mäenkieli is only classified as a dialect of Finnish.

Sami language on the other hand is the third official language of Finland (the other two being Finnish and Swedish) even though only a really really small amount of people speak it as their mother tongue.

I knew Sami and Meänkieli are different things. They are both official minority languages in Sweden

 

[Uncle]

Edit: I see it got cleared up already.

 

[Chuckie]

Yes. It's called 'Nederlands'

 

[Winterfang]

In the Caribbean we call it "Lenguaje" it means language. Some people call it "Español" which means Spanish. It's basically the same class.

 

[Dark Octave]

Kokugo

Koku•go

So the first character is "Koku" and the second one is "go"?

 

[Wazzim]

Amazing thread.

Yes. It's called 'Nederlands'

Yup. We also did English literature but most of the English classes were grammar/vocabulary.

 

[maomaoIYP]

So the first character is "Koku" and the second one is "go"?

Yup. The character for go just means language.
中国語-chugokugo, chinese
韓国語-kankokugo, korean
英語-e-go, english.

 

[weekend_warrior]

What is it in the UK/Australia? "Letters?" I don't think you guys call it English...

Until 8th grade it is called Wollomazoo, and after that it is called Rocks. Might just be Australia though.

US school system definitely working out well.


May just be your region. My region didn't go up to 8th grade and we called it "dirt" prior to that.

I learnt Tasmanian until around year 9, where I gave away even trying to understand.

In australia we call it "letters 'n shit", then there's advanced classes which are called "fuckin hard words". We have a real, thorough emphasis on swear words which are the most used in the Australian dialect.

Oidah calld em chuzwazzas....

Great thread. :lol