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| fiziwig Senior Member United States Joined 4665 days ago 297 posts - 618 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 9 of 49 12 November 2011 at 2:44am | IP Logged | ||
Now that you mention it, you've reminded me that my grand daughter took Japanese in high school in Oregon. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| FireViN Diglot Senior Member Brazil missaoitaliano.wordpRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5029 days ago 196 posts - 292 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC2 Studies: Italian | Message 10 of 49 12 November 2011 at 3:17am | IP Logged | ||
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English is mandatory for 6~7 years in Brazil. In theory, all the schools should offer Spanish, but that happens only in some private schools and very few public schools.
I have no information concerning different languages, but a few super expensive private schools might have French, German or Italian. I'm a bit jealous that you guys can/could have a choice. I had only terrible English classes. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5647 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 49 12 November 2011 at 9:18am | IP Logged | ||
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At my grammar school (= Gymnasium) which I attended in the 1970s I could learn as well Latin and Ancient Greek. I would say that Latin is offered as a school language in every grammar school in Germany, so this is nothing special. When I visited my old school at a class reunion, I discovered that they now offer Spanish as a fourth school language instead of Ancient Greek.
In one grammar school in my own city they offer Dutch as a school language. And I know that other grammar schools in Germany offer Italian or Russian. Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 12 November 2011 at 8:34pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| wv girl Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5039 days ago 174 posts - 330 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish | Message 12 of 49 12 November 2011 at 11:54am | IP Logged | ||
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In my area, it's more like the big one ... Spanish! A lot of French programs have been cut, due to administrative
preference for Spanish or difficulty finding French teachers. Some of the high schools offer a little Japanese and Chinese, mostly teachers on an exchange program. Some of the private schools still offer Latin for elementary/middle school students, but it's a rarity in the high schools. Edited by wv girl on 12 November 2011 at 11:58am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hribecek Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5149 days ago 1243 posts - 1458 votes Speaks: English*, Czech, Spanish Studies: Italian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Toki Pona, Russian | Message 13 of 49 12 November 2011 at 3:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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In Czech Republic I only know of Russian being taught (other than the big 4).
Interestingly my Slovak father in law had to learn Ukrainian (and not Russian) throughout his school life. He grew up in the East of Slovakia somewhere between the borders of Poland, Ukraine and Hungary. In a village I lived in for 1 month in Guatemala next to lake Peten Itza they were teaching the Mayan Itza language to try to save it from extinction. Edited by hribecek on 12 November 2011 at 6:27pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| floydak Tetraglot Groupie Slovakia Joined 4654 days ago 60 posts - 85 votes Speaks: Slovak*, English, German, Spanish Studies: French | Message 14 of 49 12 November 2011 at 3:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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at my grammar school in slovakia, you could choose exactly of these 4 languages you
mentioned. And it was mandatory to study english(main, more hours) +1 other language(second, fewer hours). So there were people taking english/german, engilsh/spanish or english/french. Edited by floydak on 12 November 2011 at 3:44pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 5811 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 15 of 49 12 November 2011 at 7:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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In Scotland there's a tradition of a "big 3": German, French and Italian. Despite demand, Spanish is finding it hard to squeeze onto the curriculum, because most schools offer one or two of the big 3 and don't want the expense of starting a whole new language with the need to buy books, tapes, videos etc and write entirely new worksheets.
Gaelic as a second language is now starting to get relatively popular. There's also a space on the syllabus for "Community languages" (ie. immigrant community languages -- Cantonese, Dari, things like that), but that's really not taken off, and I think so far there's only one language that's made into one school (Urdu, maybe?) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4834 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 16 of 49 12 November 2011 at 9:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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In the high school from where I graduated (early 90s, Indiana/USA), it did offer the big 4 as in Solfrid Cristina's original post, but it also offered Japanese and Russian. I took Russian then and am studying Japanese now. Odd how that works out.
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