what country do you live in and what language was taught in your school?
2026-05-20 21:29 UTC
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@ghost_towels@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-20 21:58
West coast of Canada and in my daughters high school they have French, Spanish, and Hul’q’umi’num, which is the local First Nations language. Which I think is pretty freaking cool. Shes taking French though, since as she says, we are a bilingual country. I lived overseas growing up so my choices were french, Spanish, and Arabic. I could have been fluent in Arabic! But nooooo, I took spanish. Think I speak spanish at all?
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@bipolarbxtch123@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-20 21:59
USA here. It was Spanish, French or German, too. I took Spanish for extra credit. It was an easy A as I grew up speaking it.
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@pineapple@lemmy.ml 2026-05-20 22:31
In australia it was french in primary and high school.
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@FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-20 22:56
US; ASL, French, German, Spanish, and Japanese (which appears to have been replaced with Korean) I took two years of German, and one each of French and Spanish. I knew that without someone to practice with, I was going to forget the advanced stuff anyway, so opted for basic familiarity of all three.
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@RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-20 23:11
I’m Canadian, so French. I did it for six years and I learned more than I thought, but I still don’t really speak French.
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@manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 2026-05-20 23:40
I’m in australia, and moved around a bit while i was young, I had lessons in primary schools in: english, german, japanese, indonesian, sign language, japanese again in high schools: english, japanese, french, german, and french again
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@dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2026-05-21 02:34
I grew up in Hungary and Germany, and lived most of my early adulthood in Hungary. Later in life I moved to Québec, where I reside now. In Germany, I had English starting grade five. In Hungary, Russian was mandatory until 1989. After '89 it was elective between Russian, German, English or, in some schools, French. I opted for German starting grade 6, but felt like it was a mistake, since I was already native level, but the (non-native) teachers kept trying to one-up me in their broken knowledge of the language. Starting grade eight I’ve transferred to a school that had Russian only, but since I had no prior knowledge of it, but already spoke German and English, I was exempted from it. In high school I’ve opted for English. My kids go to French language schools in Montréal and have English as a foreign language. We speak English at home. Almost ten years in and I still don’t speak French. My kids don’t speak either Hungarian or German.
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@Nemo@slrpnk.net 2026-05-21 02:45
US, English and Spanish. But we had the option, schedule permitting, to go to one of the other highschools in town to take Latin, German, French, or ASL. One friend took ASL, the rest of us took Spanish. I still speak it every day.
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@adarza@lemmy.ca 2026-05-21 04:50
i am in the u.s. my high school (~ 40 years ago) offered spanish, french, german, and swedish. the district had asl classes but that was outside of school and open to the community. juniors and seniors could take classes at a nearby college, which opened up other language choices.
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@JayJLeas@lemmy.world 2026-05-20 21:44
I’m in Australia, we had French or Japanese. I took Japanese.
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@AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 2026-05-20 21:55
USA, too—Spanish and French. If we’d had a third language it probably would have been Chinese instead of German—the cultural influence of German was minimal in the part of California where I grew up.
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@CobraCommander@quokk.au 2026-05-21 01:23
In Australia I had Indonesian.
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@emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-21 03:02
India - local language, English and Hindi (Language is a controversial issue in India, and the present situation is more a political compromise than what’s most useful, with many rules and exceptions, and some states / schools simply ignoring the whole compromise altogether.)
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@monovergent@lemmy.ml 2026-05-21 04:51
In the US: English exclusively for all of elementary school. Starting in middle school, students can choose to take Spanish, French, Latin or German (in descending order of popularity). A bus would take you to one particular high school in the county for Mandarin, Greek, Russian, Japanese, etc. For the advanced diploma, you needed to take 3 years of a foreign language course. The full sequence offered for Spanish, French, Latin, and German takes 6 years.
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@lucg@lemmy.world 2026-05-21 12:30
Netherlands, it depends on the level and where you live: everyone: Dutch and English, and another language for 2 years higher education: French and German, drop one or both after 3 years, keeping the other for another 1 or 2 years for kids that are still bored: +Latin, Greek, or Spanish as typical choices (depends what your regional school offers) in the province of Frysia, Frysian is mandatory in the overseas territories, it can be different again. Not all of them speak Dutch primarily, some don’t follow the Dutch education system. I’m not sure how it works in those regions (which may be a different country within the kingdom or a “special municipality”, depending on the island)
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@Noctambulist@lemmy.world 2026-05-21 23:36
Germany at a secondary school, grades 5–13: from grade 5: Latin (at least 6 years) from grade 7: English (at least 4 years) from grade 9: French or Ancient Greek (optional) from grade 11: Spanish or Italian or Hebrew (optional) That was about 20 years ago and learning Latin, let alone Ancient Greek, had become the exception even then.
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@Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-23 00:46
Brazil, in the 90s. It changed from school to school. I had English for my final 6 years in school (high school was 3 years), but it was mostly useless - nobody learned any English at all in school. We would just go over the same content multiple times - the usual joke was that the only thing we learned was the “to be” verb, but most kids didn’t even understand that despite studying it every year. The current mayor is pushing us to connect more with our twin city in Germany so he managed to add German classes as extra curricular to one of our schools, but after a year it has already changed and now the town simply pays for German classes in a private school for the ones who want it (probably less than 20 kids).