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This has been bugging for some time. In the school system of your country, what do they call the study of literary technique? I.e. in America it is usually called "English" (I assume they call it that in Britian and Australia too, but I could be wrong) so in Finland is it called "Finnish"? How does it translate?

The name is Portuguese.

In Germany, it's Germanistik (for German), Anglistik (for English).

In the US we called it Spanish

HemlockGrey wrote:This has been bugging for some time. In the school system of your country, what do they call the study of literary technique? I.e. in America it is usually called "English" (I assume they call it that in Britian and Australia too, but I could be wrong) so in Finland is it called "Finnish"? How does it translate?

In Finland it is called äidinkieli a direct translation would be mother's language (äiti = mother, kieli = language), but it actualy means native language.

I think he means that when you were in school what did they call the class in which literature/grammar/spelling/your native language was taught?

Sir Sirius wrote:In Finland it is called äidinkieli a direct translation would be mother's language (äiti = mother, kieli = language), but it actualy means native language.

Same here the name is "Modersmål" Mothers Language

Moder="Mother" Mål=in this case it is "language" but if it's seperated from the previous word it means goal.

Swedish is a fun language to try and learn if you ain't a native

And if you are asking what the name is when it's beeing taught in School it is called "Svenska" for Swedish

Sir Sirius wrote:

HemlockGrey wrote:This has been bugging for some time. In the school system of your country, what do they call the study of literary technique? I.e. in America it is usually called "English" (I assume they call it that in Britian and Australia too, but I could be wrong) so in Finland is it called "Finnish"? How does it translate?

In Finland it is called äidinkieli a direct translation would be mother's language (äiti = mother, kieli = language), but it actualy means native language.

In finland it's called modersmål in swedish schools aswell, which means mother tounge or native tounge, so pretty much the same.

Dahak wrote:In Germany, it's Germanistik (for German), Anglistik (for English).

What the hell its not Deutsch?

In Poland it's called "Polski".

Howedar wrote:

Dahak wrote:In Germany, it's Germanistik (for German), Anglistik (for English).

What the hell its not Deutsch?

Well, the thing you learn in school, grammar, and basic stuff, is called "Deutsch". But he asked for "the study of literary technique", which would be "Germanisitik".

The Germans were an old tribe, which are supoosed to have become us

In Singapore, Chinese, Malay, and Tamil are considered to be 'Mother Tongue' languages. In the past they were called 'Second Languages', but the government realized that it wasn't very politically correct, and made a slight adjustment.

The Wobbly Guy

In Taiwan,
"Guo Wen"
國文 (<-- Big5 Traditional Chinese Characters)
Guo for "National"
Wen for "Literature".

If it's elementary school, Wen is substituted with "Yu" (Language).

And the language taught is Mandarin.

We have "norsk", which means norwegian.