What foreign languages do kids learn at public school in your country?

Question

It's very interesting to know. I'd like to know about every single country.
P.S. At school, not in colleges or super special private schools.

Answer 1

I'm from the United States I went to a public school. At my school we lhad the chose to learn spanish, french,german, or latinl*

Answer 2

I live in Switzerland. Where I am (education is a cantonal matter, so it varies) the kids go to school in German. Those who are now in second grade have started English, but older kids (on the schedule they're phasing out) start English in seventh grade, I think.

Fifth-graders start French (although technically it's not a foreign language). I'm pretty sure there's Italian (also not foreign) in there somewhere, 9th grade maybe?

Answer 3

In the Cape Verde Islands, Portuguese is the official language but we speak a dialect at home, from pre school on we learn Portuguese, around fifth grade we start learning French and English. On eleventh grade some take Latin. French and English are not a choice, they are mandatory.

Answer 4

Here in Argentinian secondary schools, in the 80's, I had 3 years of English and 2 of French. But I think now it's either 5 years of English OR 5 years of French.

Answer 5

I teach Spanish in the U.S. (North Carolina), and I would imagine that most public high schools would teach Spanish and French. Some also teach German and maybe Latin, Japanese or possibly other languages. My last school taught Latin, but my current one does not. I'm pretty sure that English is studied in most (if not all) Spanish-speaking countries. I would guess that the same is also true in most European countries.

Answer 6

In Vietnam, children at primary, secondary, and high schools learn English only as a foreign language.

Answer 7

In France, you can learn in every school (since high school) English, German and Spanish. Italian is sometimes available. Latin is very common. Old Greek less but can be found. Lots of schools offers also traditionnal/old languages (Provencal, Breton, Corse, Occitan...)

Answer 8

In Ireland we speak English or Irish and we learn a mixture of either French, German, Italian or Spanish. It depends on which school you go to.

Answer 9

In The United States, we learn Spanish, German, and French, ant least at the school I go to.

Answer 10

In Puerto Rico, we're native Spanish speakers, but still take Spanish grammar and English, right from kindergarden.

If you pursue graduate studies, they ask that you select a third language, and the basic reason is so you can read research papers in your field.