My school had Spanish, French, or German.
Spanish, French, German, Latin, and if you wanted to learn Italian, you could go to the sister school in the morning for that class and then come back by bus.
English, Spanish, German, French, and eventually Japanese.
French, Spanish, and Latin.
Does English count in the USA? 😆
Considering the average USA reading level, might as well
UK here. English, obviously. That’s it. Modern languages - either French or Spanish - were optional. It’s honestly embarrassing.
English of course, the language of the invaders
I did grammar school, so we had:
- Dutch (our native language)
- English
- French
- German
- Classical Greek
- Latin
- Chinese (optional course)
Dutch and English were all through school, the other ones you took for 2 years and then picked two languages to follow through on, one of which had to be Greek or Latin. I did German and Greek.
German as the native tongue. English for everybody from year five. Either French or Latin mandatory from year seven. Optionally Latin or French (whichever you did not take in year seven) from year nine, and then another one from year eleven, also optional, might be Spanish, Italian, whatever.
Nowadays, some of those language courses finish with international language proficiency certificates, so you can attend foreign universities right after school. My daughter got her Cambridge C2 there.
I don’t remember what my middle school had, but my high school has Spanish, French, and Japanese. I don’t remember why, but Japanese interested me, and this was before I even knew anime was really a genre of animation. As in I’d obviously seen it in the past but didn’t recognize it as anime.
In US, had French and Latin, plus of course English.
In my hometown, it was Spanish, Latin, German, French, or ASL (I know, I know, not a foreign language. Arguably Spanish isn’t either, but anyway).
But each school only had one, so you only got fo choose if you had enough free periods to drive across town three times a week.
My school had Spanish. I learned Latin once I was in college.
They taught Welsh, French, and German when I was at school but they swapped German for Spanish a few years after I finished.
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We had Spanish, French, German, American Sign Language, and Mandarin
Mine didn’t even have French all the way through - you had to do it by correspondence or go the the local French immersion school. Which is barely constitutional in Canada.
Can you elaborate on the constitutionality of that to an American.
IIRC the right to education in either official language is in there. Ditto for other government services. Language rights are serious business in Canada.
The country started as a pretty forced union between the Quebec, populated by Francophones, and upper Canada which was full of Loyalist refugees and escaped slaves and things. Keeping the peace between the sides was paramount if the British wanted to keep their united bulwark against American expansion going. Even so, Quebec came pretty close to separating a couple times in the late 20th century.
Stuff like free speech and basic human rights is actually in a separate, later document.
My school was all boys and when we asked how it was legal to discriminate based on gender, they said that in this instance they are not saying girls can’t go to school and other options were available to girls who wanted to go to private schools.
With that being said, I’m not sure the logic makes total sense, but there were two all girl schools about a block away.
French and Spanish only at my first high school (NJ), and French, Spanish, and German at my second high school (PA so the inclusion of German makes sense).
