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| ljones29 Triglot Newbie United States Joined 4797 days ago 35 posts - 59 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Arabic (Written), Greek | Message 81 of 94 06 April 2012 at 4:10pm | IP Logged |
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German in high school, French in university.
At the schools that I have attended, the major languages taught seem to be German, French and Spanish. More recently, Russian, Arabic, Mandarin, Japanese, American Sigh Language, Italian, and Hebrew have gained popularity. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Gatsby42 Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4641 days ago 55 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 82 of 94 06 April 2012 at 5:40pm | IP Logged |
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I had a year of Spanish back in 7th grade, but all I seemed to learn or retain were
counting to 20 and most of the colors. I basically had to start from scratch last year. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6597 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 83 of 94 06 April 2012 at 5:55pm | IP Logged |
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No such thing as "offered" or "optional" at many schools here. I studied English from the age of 8, and then I went to a different school (lycee) and I was put in the German group, just like I wanted. I was 13. A year later we all also started learning Latin, it was required.
Other people studied Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin (? "Chinese". This one I think), Ukrainian. And obviously German and French, these two could be studied as the first or second foreign language (English was either 1st or 2nd for everyone, so no combinations like German-Spanish or Italian-French). To enter the lycee, you took an exam in your "1st foreign language" (and Russian too), the 2nd one was taught from scratch. It was not possible to study more (or less) than the three languages - English, Latin and something else. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4715 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 84 of 94 06 April 2012 at 6:27pm | IP Logged |
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No such thing as "offered" or "optional" [2]
I had English and Spanish at school. Both sucked... 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| BaronBill Triglot Senior Member United States HowToLanguages.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4689 days ago 335 posts - 594 votes Speaks: English*, French, German Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Persian | Message 85 of 94 06 April 2012 at 6:28pm | IP Logged |
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I grew up in Louisiana in a French Creole dominated small town. I took French from Kindergarten through 12th Grade. I was fluent by about 8th Grade thanks to a large number of speaking partners and a love for the language. French was the only language I studied in school.
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| maraschino912 Newbie Vietnam francis147.wordpress Joined 4484 days ago 7 posts - 9 votes Speaks: Vietnamese* Studies: English, French | Message 86 of 94 28 August 2012 at 6:33pm | IP Logged |
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I've learned English for almost 5 years
Now I'm learning French, I hope to learn it when I was young but francophone-schools in our country were so few, and it cost much for middle class. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| languagenerd09 Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom youtube.com/user/Lan Joined 5100 days ago 174 posts - 267 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Thai | Message 87 of 94 30 August 2012 at 1:04am | IP Logged |
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In high school I did GCSE and A-Level Spanish.
In my school you had either two options, French or Spanish ... in the next high school nearest to mine, their options were French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian, Arabic and Japanese. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jellitto Diglot Newbie Finland Joined 4900 days ago 17 posts - 32 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English Studies: German, Swedish, Japanese | Message 88 of 94 30 August 2012 at 10:32am | IP Logged |
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In Finland we have to study English and most of us start it at the age of nine. Then you can choose a second
language at the age of 11 but what you can choose depends on your school. In my school they offered Swedish, French and German but for some reason I did not choose anything. Actually, only Swedish group was formed. In lower secondary I had to take Swedish and I also started German that time. Now in upper secondary I'll continue German and English and Swedish of course. Spanish was offered and we could study Japanese, Mandarin, Russian and Italian in other upper secondary schools too. But I am happy with my self-studies so I chose nothing new again. I live in the second biggest city in Finland so we tend to have very many choises. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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