Languages

How did we look for information

to this exercise?
At first we went to the
centre of kalajoki and
we asked people for
example: do they think
that is important to
learn new languages,
what is their mother
tongue, do they speak
different languages and
do they want to learn
age
WE asked many young
people this question
52.2%

18-29 year old people

4.5%

30-49 year old people

25,4%

50-69 year old people

Gender
the absolute majority of
respondents were
women.

about 19 percent were

men and

about 10 percent prefer

not to say.
What is your mother
tongue?
92,5 % of people speaks
Finnish as their mother
tongue. 62 persons

3 % of people speaks
Swedish as their mother
tongue. 2 persons

1,5 % of people speaks

Hungarian as their mother
tongue. 1 person

1,5 % of people speaks

Russian as their mother
Do you speak other languages
than your mother tongue?
7,5% people answered that
they don’t speak any other
language than their mother
tongue. 92,5% answered that
they speak some other
language than their mother
tongue. We were really
surprised that so many
people speak other languages
than their mother tongue.
If yes, what
languages?
so many said english
and that is a subject at
school and swedish too.
people had different
answers and they
thought that is good to
speak other languages.
Do you think that it is important to be
able to speak different languages?
4,5% of people don’t think it’s
important to be able to speak
different languages.

95,5% of people think it’s

important to be able to speak
different languages.
Would you like to learn a new language?
21,5% of people don’t like to

learn a new language.

78,5% of people would like to

learn a new language.

If yes, what languages would you like to
learn?
It was surprising, that so many

people would like to learn

Spanish.
 gracias
kiitos
hvala
obriga
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