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flexie
on March 19, 2013
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What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's Schoo...
I bet students in Finland start off with a lower English level than students in South Los Angeles.
argonaut
on March 19, 2013
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I bet students in South Los Angeles start off with a lower Finnish level than students in Finland.
flexie
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Well, that's an easy bet to settle. 97 percent of Finns have either Finnish, Swedish, Russian or Estonian as native language and only 0.26 percent of Finns are native English speakers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Finland
argonaut
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It's as easy to settle as your bet. That was the point I was demonstrating with my sarcasm.
flexie
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Sorry. Got lost on me :-)
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