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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5134 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 1 of 49 11 November 2011 at 11:39pm | IP Logged |
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What are the big 4, you may ask. Well for me that is English, French, Spanish and German. I am aware of the fact that these may not be the big four in other parts of the world, but getting answers from other countries is part of the charm of this forum.
These 4 languages are routinely offered at our schools, and I suspect also in most schools in Europe and the Americas, and possibly also other countries. But my interest is what is studied apart from those 4. Here we are down to 1 percent - or less, if we exclude those 4 languages. I know of one school which offers Mandarin, one which offers Russian, and I have read of a couple of schools which offer Japanese. And when I say schools I mean up until high school. Obviously if we include University/College we would get very different answers. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| fiziwig Senior Member United States Joined 4665 days ago 297 posts - 618 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2 of 49 12 November 2011 at 12:03am | IP Logged |
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In my high school, in 1960 in Los Angeles, CA we also had the choice of Latin which I took for two semesters. They didn't offer Sanskrit, though, which I always thought was a shame. :)
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6709 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 49 12 November 2011 at 12:08am | IP Logged |
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One of the schools here (Visby>Gotland->Sweden) offers Mandarin and Italian (plus Latin and Ancient Greek) besides the big four.
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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5724 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 4 of 49 12 November 2011 at 12:11am | IP Logged |
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My parents know a man who teaches Japanese at a local high school, and there are rumors of school districts teaching Korean and Mandarin Chinese at the high school and junior high school levels.
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| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 5925 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 5 of 49 12 November 2011 at 12:35am | IP Logged |
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When I was in the Jr. College Japanese class, the room was filled, about 50% with high school kids who were taking the class. I assume this is pretty common (in the USA) that you can take Jr. College classes if the language isn't offered at the high school. The Jr. College offers quite a few languages, including Cantonese and Vietnamese, but only at beginner level. That have intermediate level classes only for Spanish.
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| July Diglot Senior Member Spain Joined 5073 days ago 113 posts - 208 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishB2 Studies: French | Message 6 of 49 12 November 2011 at 12:37am | IP Logged |
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My state secondary school in England had optional lessons in Latin (they were part of
some kind of revival movement - I loved it!) and there was one teacher who taught Russian lessons as an extra subject, but she left before I could take that class. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4659 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 7 of 49 12 November 2011 at 1:00am | IP Logged |
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There are some high schools in Poland offering Swedish.
Unfortunately in my in theory on of the best high schools in voivodeship they have offered only English, German and Latin. And even some other schools in my town have been teaching French! It's nothing weird that with such approach people from my school were startled how anyone would like to learn languages like Slovene. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| espejismo Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 4851 days ago 498 posts - 905 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Greek, Azerbaijani | Message 8 of 49 12 November 2011 at 1:54am | IP Logged |
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My Jesuit high school in New York offered the following languages (in order of their popularity a couple of years ago): Spanish, Italian, Latin/French.
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