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My school offers:
Spanish
German
French
Latin
Italian

I think it'd be cool if we offered a non-Eurpoean languge like Japanese or Chinese (Mandarin, I guess).

Well, I think every school should have a wide selection, the problem is finding teachers. It's all based on where the country is located, though.

My school offers the same thing, although I think it would be a good idea for schools to start offering some mandarin chinese or soemthing.

Aah, you are Canadian! smile (I'm Canadian too btw lol don't worry)

I feel sorry for you... here we have English, French, Spanish, and Hebrew, so I'm good 3nodding

When I was at school, we were offered French, German, Spanish, Latin, Italian and Japanese.
At college it was the same bar Latin.
And now I'm at uni and you can do a huge variety of languages including Chinese, Russian, Portuguese as well as those above.

My view is that everyone should at least learn one other language than their native tonuge, and preferably two. Maybe not to complete fluency, but to a decent, communicable standard. These languages should be popular, widely used languages. Ones that could be used in business (such as Japanese) or ones that are just widespread (like Spanish).

I hate how my government has said that language learning is not compulsory after age 14. However, it means that I have better job prospects once I graduate with fluent French, and near fluency in Spanish!

We offer English(mandatory, first language), French(nobody likes the teacher), Spanish(most kids that take a language pick Spanish, but I hear nothing but bad about the teacher, and the kids at my school who's mother tongue is Spanish say that they teach things wrong), Latin(nice teacher), and German(most kids think its hard for some reason? but the teacher is really nice, im in German 1 now). If your a gifted student, there is a small chance you may be accepted at Knox College(a very good privite college) to take Russian or Japanese for both high school and college credit. I am not even going to bother applying though, I want to learn German first before Russian or Japanese, and its hard to get accepted since its one of the countrys top schools.

The great thing about school here is we have a 4 block schedule. So I have 4, 85 minute classes a day, and we finish each class in half the time. For example, I can finish a single math class, language class, etc., in just 2 terms. There are some longer 4 term classes like AP Calculus that is worth a whole year of colleege credit, and American Studies is put into 4 terms. Some classes are just 1 term too, such as Drivers ed. and P.E.

We need to offer Arabic and Mandarin.

well even if they had teachers, not that many kids might take the class, So it'd either get canceled or have ,like 4 or 5 kids in a class.

I'm pretty sure that here we can get independent studies in a lot of courses, but I doubt I could do that in languages sweatdrop teacher issue again