They taught Welsh, French, and German when I was at school but they swapped German for Spanish a few years after I finished.

I did grammar school, so we had:

• Dutch (our native language)
• English
• French
• German
• Classical Greek
• Latin
• Chinese (optional course)

Dutch and English were all through school, the other ones you took for 2 years and then picked two languages to follow through on, one of which had to be Greek or Latin. I did German and Greek.

English of course, the language of the invaders

In America it’s French, German and Spanish and in Panama it’s English and French.

As a Japanese native, the only foreign language I studied at school was basically English.

However, as part of my ancient Japanese language education, I studied classical Chinese literature written in Chinese characters, from which hiragana and other Japanese characters are derived, so ancient Chinese might also be included in the list of foreign languages ​​I learned.

As a German:

• English mandatory from the beginning
• Mandatory choice between Latin and French in 6th grade, Latin possible until 10th/11th grade (EF) and French possible until graduation
• Russian and Spanish possible from EF until graduation
• Korean and Japanese offered as extracurricular activities (Korean was taught by the parent of a student and stopped when said student graduated, Japanese was offered by a teacher who was a weeb so we mostly just watched anime (I think the only thing we actually learned was how to introduce ourselves), but it only started being offered 6 months before Covid shut everything down, don’t know if she continued offering it afterwards)

We had Spanish, French, German, American Sign Language, and Mandarin

I don’t remember what my middle school had, but my high school has Spanish, French, and Japanese. I don’t remember why, but Japanese interested me, and this was before I even knew anime was really a genre of animation. As in I’d obviously seen it in the past but didn’t recognize it as anime.

UK here. English, obviously. That’s it. Modern languages - either French or Spanish - were optional. It’s honestly embarrassing.

We had to choose 2 of English, German, Spanish, French, Italian. We had the option of Japanese as extracurricular

As a person from pacific, we could choose between Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, and the local austronesian language, in addition to mandatory english, for high school.

Pacific economy relies a lot on tourism, and it mainly comes from Asia or America, so knowing how to talk to tourists can be handy.

Mandatory:

• Danish (Native)
• English
• German
• Other Nordic languages: Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic (as part of Danish class)

Optional:

• French
• Spanish
• Latin (mandatory on certain schools)

Spanish is most common, but many high schools also teach French, Latin, and German.

Fun times when my German teacher had the idea of showing up to the French class cookout uninvited (there were only 6 of us, cf. 12 students in French)

ASL, Greek, Italian, Russian, and Japanese were only offered at specific schools in my district, with a bus that takes you to those classes and back. Japanese ended up being just a TV broadcast alongside worksheets and was eventually dropped from the catalog. Friends and family living in larger cities and suburbs told me about taking Mandarin Chinese, but the school district I attended (and neighboring districts) didn’t offer it.

edit: this is in the US

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My middle school had English, German, Spanish, Latin, Ancient Greek.