2007-02-02 23:55:32 · 14 answers · asked by Clean heart 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
In the UK the most popular language taught in addition to English in school is usually french followed by German . Some school do offer Spanish but not as popular as french and German .
2007-02-03 00:00:26 · answer #1 · answered by scorpionbabe32 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think the question was "what's the most taught language in schools in the uk". The question was, "what is the most popular language in the uk, French or Spanish", and answering that question I would say Spanish. Just think how many more people fly/holiday/live in Spain than France. Also, when someone English meets someone French, they might know one or two words to tell them, and usually they don't even bother. When they meet someone Spanish, they just come up with all these little words they've learnt in their holidays, which makes it much more popular than French, the one they actually "learnt" in school.
And just a note to the one who said the Spanish from South America is better... you're just ignorant! if the fact that in Spain they have the "th" sound, or two verbs for your "to be" makes it an uglier/less popular language, what about the English weak "r" or what is the point of the k in "know", "knee", or why to have two verbs (do and make) when you could have just the one: "hacer"
You were spot on about the british and being bilingual, shame about the rest of your nonsense.
2007-02-04 09:33:47 · answer #2 · answered by 13 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They have all answered that one correctly expect "umph" but then again maybe "umph" is hanging out in the Polish district ...
. Maybe Suzie needs an English Teacher ..
English, French and German are the 3 big languages all across Europe .... If you can speak any one of these languages you can get by quite well .... so it only makes sense since the U.K is in Europe that French and German would be the two fore runners ..... don't ya think!
2007-02-03 01:28:03 · answer #3 · answered by elke 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
French is the most commonly taught foreign language in the UK's schools, followed by German. Strangely considering the holidaying habits of Brits Spanish has never fully taken off and other languages Russian, Chinese are trendy in some circles.
The British are notoriously bad at languages "why should we bother when every one speaks English".
Many students from ethnic minorities take exams in their mother-tongues, even though these are designed for English mother tongue speakers.
2007-02-03 00:08:27 · answer #4 · answered by pwei34 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
French. Spanish is not bad...the Latin-American version.
Spanish for Spain has that awful..'th' sound graTHias for gracias and BarTHelona for Barcelona. The silly inverted ? at the start of every question is off-putting too.Portuguese and Italian are much nicer languages.
French does not have two verbs for 'to be', unlike the Spanish..'ser' and 'estar'.Complicated for the English.
pwei34....it is the English that don't like other languages..not the Brits.
Real Welsh people are bilingual. Paid ag anghofio hynny!!
2007-02-03 04:05:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
English, well England is Eurpoean, so English is by far the most popular European language in the UK, next would be most likely be French as it is the one taught in most schools.
2007-02-03 00:25:07 · answer #6 · answered by mike-from-spain 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, never. A single worldwide language could decimate worldwide lifestyle, get rid of industries, and value an unfathomable quantity of time and funds. to not point out, the question of what language could be chosen (Mandarin is, in spite of everything, the main spoken language).
2016-09-28 08:54:04 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was in high-school (admittedly a fair few years ago now!) it was:
1) French
2) German
3) Spanish
The "default" was French - the others had to be specially requested.
2007-02-03 03:21:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
French is the most taught - why they don't teach Russian, Turkish or Hindi instead is beyond me - it Britain's continuing obsession with France plus the UN & EU's use of it I guess.
2007-02-03 06:31:55 · answer #9 · answered by profound insight 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
French is taught in lots of primary schools and maybe spanish but german is usually taught in good secondary schools, also some spanish, at my school we learn french and german, you can also learn russian, japanese, latin and greek.
2007-02-03 01:41:15 · answer #10 · answered by James D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋