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My school has,
Hebrew (native language)
English (2nd language)
Arabic (3nd language. It was a compulsory at middle school but a subject of choice at high school)

I think that it would had been much better if there was the same emphasis over Arabic as there is with English here. Fluency in English is very important for communicating with people all over the world, however, considering the fact that I live in a country which is surrounded by Arabic speaking countries only and most people (including me) cannot even hold a superficial conversation in it... rolleyes
Moreover, I think there should be more stress over practice speaking a language that is taught rather than writing it. I don't know how it is in schools aboard, but there is a great lack of practice speaking in the Israel. Our teachers make huge efforts to instill us a wide vocabulary and a good grammar, but it is meaningless as long as we can't speak fluently.

Anyway. In my opinion, it should had been,
Russian (as about million people here speak it and because Russia is still a powerful country)
Chinese (a raising economic power)
Fersi
Yiddish
Ladino
German
French
Spanish
I actually tried to assemble a group of 15 students who are interested in French in order to turn it into another subject of choice for high school, but it hasn't worked out.

I wish it would have had,
Polish
Finnish
Czech
Swedish
Italian

At my previous school they had these languages:
1. Dutch (Native language, obligatory)
2. English (Obligatory)
3. French (Obligatory for the first 3 years, if you like German better, you can quit this)
4. German (Obligatory for the first 3 years, if you like French better, you can quit this)
5. Spanish (Took it for 6 months, learned nothing and quit)
6. Latin

I would've like to learn more languages at school. Like REAL spanish, because my teacher kept bitching about how the ETA worked in Spain. Sheesh...
Or Italian, would've been cool. At some school in my country (The Netherlands) they do give Chinese, heard it wasn't even that hard.

My high school offered:
4 years of French
4 years of German
3 years of Spanish...which was weird because Spanish was the most popular by far, yet they took away the last year. Even the Spanish teachers were confused by this.

My university currently offers majors in:
English
Spanish
French
Latin

...Minors in:
English
Spanish
French
Latin
German
Arabic (finally! yay!)
Japanese

...and classes only --no degree-- in:
Chinese
Italian
Greek
ASL
Russian
Quechua
Portuguese
Slovakian (sp?)

The Arabic and Japanese minors are actually Middle Eastern Studies and Asian Studies, so it's focused on the culture and the language unlike the other degrees. You have to do at least the first 4 language classes, but there are 6 offered in total, unless you already speak the language and test out of that part. rolleyes

The last 4 are all offered as part of an MLA class...they alternate semesters. Like, one semester Russian is taught, next semester will be Portugese, etc. It's ridiculous, especially because they usually don't even go past the first level.

I wish you could get a major in Arabic. And at least a minor in Chinese. In todays world, the government pays good money for Arabic-speaking people. And with all the economy and business stuff with Japan and China, a lot of companies need people that speak those languages.

We have our english (native), spanish (most popular), french (best, but unapreciated), ASL (not considered a language by anybody not in ASL), and german (meh...).

My school only has English and Spanish. gonk

The last one I was at had English, Spanish, and French. Turns out the German teacher quit two years before I got there. stare

I think that they should bring French, German, Latin, Japanese and Mandarin into the school. I don't know who is incharge on the foreign langauge department, but they need to wake up and offer more than just Spanish. Arabic would be great too, and Swedish, although it would be highly unlikely to have.

My school offers French and Spanish. But i wish they taught Latin and German. :[

The chamber choir i am in does loads of Latin Hymes.
My History Teacher is actually half german and she speaks it fluetly. Lol.. just thought i'd add these in.

The problem with languages in public schools in the US is that what they offer depends on what teachers are available. My school taught only Spanish and French when I went there, but the last four years they couldn't keep a French teacher there longer than a year (it's like the cursed DADA position in Harry Potter xd ). They were going to offer Chinese, but the levy failed so they couldn't hire the Chinese teacher they were planning on hiring. Now it's just Spanish, I think. It's all very depressing. Thankfully, my college offers tons of languages!

What province/state are you in, and what type of school?

I want to go there..... eek