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| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6272 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 25 of 94 10 August 2010 at 12:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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English (native language), L2s German, French, Spanish.
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| nuriayasmin Senior Member Germany Joined 5243 days ago 155 posts - 210 votes | Message 26 of 94 10 August 2010 at 12:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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When I went to school, English was taught from class 5 on. My children had English lessons in primary school, too (class 1 - 4) but were taught the basics again in class 5. The second foreign language is normally French or Latin and if you decide to study a third one, you may either do French if you had chosen Latin as your second foreign language or Latin if you're already studying French or you can do Spanish. Some schools also offer Russian (especially in East Germany), Italian or Chinese but that's not very common. English - French - Latin - Spanish are the languages which are normally taught at German schools but only English is compulsory for every pupil.
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| brian91 Senior Member Ireland Joined 5444 days ago 335 posts - 437 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 27 of 94 10 August 2010 at 1:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Irish since kindergarten and German when I started secondary school when I was twelve. I also studied Japanese
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| Doogle Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5519 days ago 20 posts - 22 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin | Message 28 of 94 10 August 2010 at 1:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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At primary school, we didn't have any formal language teaching - but occasionally a language teacher would a appear for a week or so to work with small groups on either French or German. When I started secondary school (age 11) half the school did German, the other half French (we had no choice in this unless our parents specifically wrote to the school). Second year of secondary school, we were given the option to start the other language (French or German). The year I started my GCSE's we were offered an afterschool Spanish GCSE class, but not many people took it, and I think it was dropped after a few months. I think there were only 2 students (out of maybe 240?) who opted to take GCSE's in both French and German - myself included. At college and Uni, I believe the situation was much improved, but I had other things on my mind by this point, and didn't get into languages again until I was well into a near impossible maths degree, which, I should add, is the closest I have ever come to greek! I’m 24 now, so this wasn’t that long ago… Edited by Doogle on 10 August 2010 at 1:45pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7103 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 29 of 94 10 August 2010 at 2:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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I attended a UK grammar school in the 70s and did 7 years of French and Latin (up to A-level), 5 years of German (up to A-level) and an O-level in Italian (I would have like to do the A-level as well but I was the only one in the entire school interested). Ancient Greek was also on offer if desired.
There's seems to be a definite decline in German - the secondary school my son is looking at offer only French & Spanish and even though they do exchange visits with a school in Germany, they don't teach the language which seems a bit odd. He currently does French once a week at primary level. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ennime Tetraglot Senior Member South Africa universityofbrokengl Joined 5904 days ago 397 posts - 507 votes Speaks: English, Dutch*, Esperanto, Afrikaans Studies: Xhosa, French, Korean, Portuguese, Zulu | Message 30 of 94 10 August 2010 at 2:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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I got French in school since the 5th year in elementary... but they never taught me
properly so I'm still struggling with it over a decade later... Also got a little German, which I forgot immediately... I never had decent English, for some reason either the teachers fell sick, and were replaced after months by crappy temps or something like that... or I skipped classes... But I do speak English pretty natively nowadays... Oh yeah, I had Latin, which I loved and which I should take up again, only had two years of it 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| arturs Triglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 5271 days ago 278 posts - 408 votes Speaks: Latvian*, Russian, English | Message 31 of 94 10 August 2010 at 2:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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In Latvia English is compulsory for everyone. 2-3 years later, we have to choose usually between German and Russian. Usually 80 % choose German as a seconds foreign language. This applies to average schools. There are some schools like the French Lycee and Nordic Gymnasium, where they additionally teach other languages like French (in the Lycee), Swedish, Danish, etc in the Gymnasium.
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| Desacrator48 Groupie United States Joined 5308 days ago 93 posts - 127 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 32 of 94 10 August 2010 at 6:51pm | IP Logged | ||
Serious question but only because I don't know, but is English compulsory for every German pupil because they won the war? I imagine the reverse would be true if things had gone differently. If not could someone explain why? 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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