I'm just interested to hear what languages they teach/taught you in school? In here they teach us Finnish from preschool, english (or spanish in big schools, it's optional) from 3 rd grade and swedish from 6 th grade, and from 8 th grade you could study French, russian, german or english/spanish depending wich one they started teaching you on 3 rd, these were optional, so you didn't have to start studying new languages on 8 th, but you had to study finnish and swedish and english/spanish.

We have American Sign language as an option in 9-12th grade in america.

I did french emersion, so all classes except English were done in french or at least a mix. But the English classes and other schools had to have a French subject. You had to take french in gr 8, then grade 9 and 10 you could choose french or Spanish. In grade 11 and 12 you could choose french, Spanish, German, or Japanese.

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From a Canadian 🇨🇦

p.s. I've forgotten literally everything about french, despite doing it for 13 years 😅

As someone who id from many places I have alot lol. In Texas, English was the only required one but Spanish was also really popular as an elective or extra credit class. the school I went to in Idaho required Latin and English and offered French and Spanish as elective classes. In Saskatchewan, Canada it was French immersion through 5th grade and than English with optional French.

I can speak English fluently, stumble through Spanish, Read english, spanish, french, and latin and recognize some dutch

I went to school in England. For GCSE qualifications we had to take one MFL (modern foreign Language) of German, French or Spanish. There were also options to do Manderin, Latin and Ancient Greek. Other schools offer more/less but usually everyone does one MFL unless they have exceptions etc.

I did German, Greek and Latin :)

Oh plus English Lit/Lang, but they didn't count as 'Language' classes as everyone was assumed as fluent, so we mostly studied books, plays and poetry, with little grammar, to my dismay as often the English Language is used incorrectly nowadays!

I live in a small town in Michigan but the only language available at my school is one required high school Secondary Language class, which happens to be Spanish. Some people freak out about it and if they are lucky they are able to take an online ASL class.

Here in New Zealand we are all taught the language that was used before the Europeans arrived, which is Māori from kindy all the way through to highschool. It's not something we are taught to be fluent in as we spent a lot more time learning about the culture and cultrual history. But most people can recognise multiple words, phrases etc and use Māori words in English sentences.

There are also specific classes for the Māori kids where they usually speak more Māori than English in the class. Every school I've ever been to has had at least one of these classes.

Besides that other languages are optional to take.

Not sure how grades work in English but the first school you learn English and french being the first language. In second school you can learn Spanish or German and the possibility of doing a stronger class of English or Portuguese and also a side of Latin or Greek. In the third school stage you can learn Italian but also including the other languages. So mostly in the last school stage before university you have English, Spanish/German and French, but an option of Latin, Greek, Portuguese or Italian.

Personally I just had English, French, Spanish and Latin but learning German at home :)

I tried Finnish but gave up after some time, lol.

Lived in the countryside. So no language other than our native English at primary school. But we did get art, pottery, woodwork, swimming, cooking, lots of sewing, country dancing, singing together, yoga. Lol

I was thrown out of mandatory French at secondary school, the other languages on offer were Spanish and German, no one suggested I should take them.

I finished with degree in chemistry and biochemistry, so all was not in vain.

These are so interesting to read ( I love to hear about other countries's schools and what they teach, idk why XD)