Retired People Questionnaire

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Multilingualism is part of our society and the knowledge of many languages is not only an open window to other people but also an opportunity to get to know other cultures. As it is possible to travel around the world, communication and language knowledge are getting more and more important. Even at home, people are getting in contact with many different languages trough television. Brussels, capital of Europe, is the centre of many different nationalities, a multilingual world where everyone evolves in a different way from young to retired people.

At 65 years old, people get retired and their entire life changes. The daily routine to go weekday to work and relax at the weekend completely change. Now, people have to organize their life and …show more content…

This is a questionnaire with more general questions on retired people activities. This allows me to know better how retired people organize their daily life and which activity take them more time. The questionnaires are available in French but also in Dutch. It allows me to compare if the French or Dutch origins have an impact on the way retired people live and see life.

The third questionnaire is for retired people from 60 to 75+ who are studying a foreign language. This is the most important questionnaire, the basis of my thesis: retired people learning languages and the place it takes in their daily activities. I compared it with the questionnaire above and have already been able to notice that retired people who are studying languages are doing more activities and enjoying more their retirement than retired people that do not study any language. Moreover, it seems that retired learners aren’t doing any volunteer work while the other retired people …show more content…

The reason why we feel comfortable in a language is because we love this language, we like to talk with other people in this language, we like to understand native speakers and get to know their culture. Learning is a continuous process that never ends; we learn from the moment we are born until a very old age. Once retirement comes, work ends but not learning. Some people continue studying because it is for them a way to continue to exist, to remain in the

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