![]() | About Bilingual Armed Forces? |
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| | Bilingual Armed Forces? infofor example, Canada has English and French, Finland has Finnish and Swedish, Belgium - Flemish and French. How these bilingual countries have their armed forces function language-wise? Are both languages accepted? Should all servicemen(women) know both languages as a condition for recruitment or conscription? Paperwork? Radio transmissions? Verbal orders? What about the National Guard in those states that have English and Spanish as their official language? I would really appreciate if somebody enlighten me on this matter! |
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well i can tell you that while NZ has both english and maori, english is definatley the primary language. and i would expect that for any bilingual armed forces that they would standardise to on shared language the swiss army is a good example....they are all trained in the german language |
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I am not entirely sure but it seems the Belgians segregate in some cases. Maybe it's only for boot camp. |
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They are however nowadays quite few and I invision they will dissapear and melt into the Finnish speaking units in the future. //KJ. "We are the pilgrims, Master We shall go always a little further, it may be beyond the last blue mountain barred with snow, Across that angry or glimmering sea..." | |
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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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As far as I know, US armed force's offical language are English language. (Most of you probably know about it already) Same goes for Mexican armed force, I think, they only speak Spanish including the training or field.
I shall return- General Douglas MacArthur |
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I am interested to find what's going on in the Armies where the state itsef has two official languages! The US, as far as I know has none However, Canada has two and every official word there has to be in English and French! That's why I wonder: how do they do it in the Armed Forces? If it is "English Only", do the French Canadians accept this? If it could be both, should all personnel by bilingual? | |
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Belgium had a disasterous experience in world war one with his bilingual army!
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could you, please, elaborate on this? | |
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make a statement....then back it up! jesus | |
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