Hungary Lags Behind In Foreign Language Learning
- 2 Feb 2016 8:01 AM
Hungary ranked low among EU member states as regards learning two or more foreign languages in secondary school, a survey conducted by Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, showed. In Hungary only 6.3% of secondary school students aged between 11 and 14 learned two or more foreign languages, similar to Austria where their proportion was 9.5%, the survey conducted in 2014 showed.
In Hungary 90.2% of secondary school students learnt one foreign language in 2014 with a preference given to English or German.
Across the EU-28 bloc, the most popular foreign language was English, followed by French, German, Spanish, Russian and Italian, the survey showed.
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