Reading post 340152 in main thread: Bilingual Armed Forces?
August 10th, 2007  
boris116
 
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by KJ
Finland have Swedish speaking battalions/brigades where orders and commands are in Swedish.
They are however nowadays quite few and I invision they will dissapear and melt into the Finnish speaking units in the future.

//KJ.
How do they communicate with the rest of the Army?
Is it mandatory for the officers to know both languages?

If you are a Finnish 0fficer, can you give an order to the Swedish batallion's member in Finnish and get a reply: 'I don't understand your language'?

Last edited by boris116; August 10th, 2007 at 01:04..
 
 
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