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My father never had to study any languages in school besides Finnish (because back then foreign languages were not compulsory). My mother had to study Swedish. I believe that the reason why there are Finns who do not like studying Swedish, is that the people who are now like 40-60 years old were forced to study that because it was a law that you need to study Swedish, and they have told their children that it was just terrible that they were forced to study Swedish. They passed that way of thinking to their children who then have passed/will pass the hate of Swedish to their kids.
I think it is always a good thing to study languages. Be it Latin or any other language that you might need or will never need. Once you learn one foreign language the other languages you study will become easier and easier to learn. Especially if they are related languages, like English, German and Swedish.
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