Evening School
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I have been studying the Faroese language in the Fuglafjørður Evening School. We have a three hour class every Monday night from October through early May. Only three of us have attended the entire course, but quite a few others have come for part of the time. The class is taught in English, but I am the only one in the class for whom English is the primary language.
I have been quite surprised at the number of different countries represented in the class. We have had students from several countries in Africa - from Namibia, Ghana, and Kenya. One student is from the Philippines, one from a small island in the Caribbean, one is from Japan, one was from Thailand, two were from Russia, and I am from the USA.
For some reason, we are all working hard to learn a language that is spoken by very few people. Somewhere between 75,000 and 100,000 people speak Faroese; and they have had a written language for only 150 years.