We have English in school to the same portion as the other European countries. The difference is that English/American TV-shows are not dubbed into Finnish, they are only subtitled. It's a huge factor in learning language to hear it daily. For instance, here in Finland we are forced to learn Swedish due to it being an "official" language (a leftover from the middleages when Finland used to be part of Sweden) and we never hear it spoken, and the result is visible, only maybe 20% of the Finns can REALLY talk it, rest of us barely.
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