Languages

[Irish King]

I don't know if this is the best place to post this but here goes.

I was just interested in what foreign languages are offered in the school systems that you attend. Please post where your school is and what languages

Location
Southern Massachusetts, (New Bedford exactly)

Languages
French
Spanish
Portuguese
Latin

[Copperknickers II]

Location: Glasgow, Scotland

Languages: Latin, Ancient Greek, Spanish, French, German, Mandarin (Sixth Form only)

[Sun Devil]

Location: Tucson, Arizona

Languages:
Spanish
French

(AZ schools arent a good judge, though, since we are 50th in education)

[burningsoul]

Location:
Slovakia - Lučenec

Languages:
English
German
French
Russian
Spanish

[Michael333]

Italy, Pordenone
Languages:
Italian
dialect of my city
English
German
Latin (learning...)
Ancient Greek (learning...)

[Change]

Ottestad, Norway

Norwegian
English
German
French
Spanish


I think it's relevant to tell what kind of school too!

I don't know what my type of school is called, but I'm 15

[blackwatersix]

Manila, Philippines:

English
Filipino
French (since I was in an advanced high school.)

In Uni, add German, Spanish, Italian, Latin, and Japanese to that.

[Ishoss]

Location: Sauda, Norway

In Junior High I think you can choose (but you have to take one of them) between Spanish and German. Everyone has to learn English. You can also learn advanced Norwegian or advanced English.

In High School we get to choose between Spanish, French, German and advanced English.

Personally I had German in Junior High, and French at High School. Biggest waste of my life, I may add. So j'ai können un peut Allemandes und un peut Französich. I am better at writing French but I know more German phrases I believe. I also do advanced English, but my formal English is crap. What can I say? I learnt my english by gaming.

Edit: Change -

I THINK Ungdomsskulen is Junior High, and vidergående is High School.

[Taxandrius]

Location: Geel, Belgium (Flanders)

Latin
Greek (ancient)
Italian
English
German
French
Dutch


Dutch, French, German and English are compulsory, everyone has them, from "8h-maths" till "latin-languages". Latin/Greek/ Latin & Greek are the main subjects of certain programmes that offer one of these/ both languages extra.
I'm in languages 'cause I hate maths, so I have 4h of Dutch, French and Latin and 3h of German and English each per week, which enables me to make my point quite clear in 4 languages.
No school in the area offers Spanish, just because nobody here has advantage out of it.

[Irish King]

Yeah Spanish and Portuguese are the two big languages in my town. Lots of Puerto Rican and Azorean immigrants.

[Copperknickers II]

Read the OP people, he is talking about education not local languages.

[razor-]

Odense, Denmark

English
German
French
Spanish

[Aru]

Vinkovci, Croatia

English - every school*
German - every school*
Italian - every school at the Adriatic and many at the continent
French - all gymnasiums*
Russian - all gymnasiums*
Old Latin and Greek - all gymnasiums
Old Slavonic - some gymnasiums
Serbian - where serbian minority is present*
Czech - where minority is present
Ukrainian - minority*
Hungarian - minority*
Romanian - minority
Slovak - minority*
Ruthenian - minority*

*taught in schools in and around my town
That's all about public schools, there's a ton of private language schools which teach a dozen other languages

[Kovas]

Girona, Spain:

• Spanish/Castilian
• Catalan
• English
• French
• Latin
• Ancient Greek

[DAVIDE]

Italy, Pordenone

wow i never knew that. Downtown Pordenone?

Sorry for the OT

[Bloodknight]

Woerden, The Netherlands

Dutch
English
French
Ancient Greek
Latin

[Michael333]

wow i never knew that. Downtown Pordenone?

Sorry for the OT

I live near Pordenone, in Roveredo in Piano.

[Azog 150]

Liverpool, UK:

English
French
German
Chinese (Can't remember if its Mandarin or Cantonese)
Japanese

French and German are compulsory up until GCSE's (I didn't take any languages at GCSE level)

For some reason they don't do Spanish, although I know most British schools do.

[Mangerman]

My old school was a gymnasium (Almere, The Netherlands):

Dutch (compulsory - 6 years)
English (compulsory - 6 years)
German (4 (compulsory) or 6 (optional) years)
French (4 (compulsory) or 6 (optional) years)
Latin (3 (compulsory) or 6 (optional) years)
Ancient Greek (2 (compulsory) or 5 (optional) years)
Spanish (optional)

After the compulsory years for Latin and Ancient Greek you had to choose one of the two languages to continue with for the next 3 years. German and French were compulsory for the first 4 years and depending on your specialization (science or social/languages) you had to do 2 more years. But the system has somewhat changed, so it's not the same as a few years ago anymore.

[PhilipO'Hayda]

Davis College
English
German
gaelic
french