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 Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 7:40 am
I suppose it depends where you live... they should teach whichever languages you're most likely to come into contact with. (For example, my school had Spanish and French - good choices considering it's a British school, but I think they should've offered German too, because Germany's relatively close to Britain too.)
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Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 5:57 pm
My school only offers French and Spanish. sweatdrop I think my school should add:
-German (Popular language)
-Russian (Popular language)
-Chinese (It is the most spoken language in the world.)
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 2:25 pm
My school offers:
Spanish (most popular)
French
Italian
Russian
Japanese
Latin
However, I really think that they should offer chinese, either as an extra or to replace Japanese. Japanese letters have some similarity, and I do not want to diss Japanese.
I just think that Chinese is pretty popular too, and it's pretty. Plus, 20 percent of my school is Asian.
Yes, that was a very disjointed rant. Sorry ^^;
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 2:23 pm
My school offers French, German, Spanish and Latin, but my sister's school offers French, German, Spanish, Latin, Japanese, Russian, Italian, Portugese, Czech, Dutch and Chinese (and probably even more) because her school has some kind of language college status or something
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Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 5:58 am
My - also public - school teach:
Swedish (well, d'uh, we're in Sweden)
English
German
Spanish
French
Italian
Russian
Eventually Chinese next year.
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Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 2:52 pm
My school offers
Spanish (up to really high levels)
French( same as spanish(really high levels)
German (up to AP)
Russian(up to 2 for next year but last year it was up to 3)
ASL up to 2(AMerican Sign Language, Juniors and Seniors only)
Japanese 1 EDNET( they got rid of it this year ><;, and might not bring it back until my senior year)
they should have
Japanese(bring that one bACK!)
Italian
Chinese(I seen some people in my school speak it)
Another Slavic Language(ie. serbian, Croatian, Ukranian, Bulgarian etc)
Danish/Swedish/ or Norwegian
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Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 1:00 pm
Dutch
ancient greek or what ever you call it
latin
frensh
german
english
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Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 5:59 pm
My high school offers German, French, Spanish and English
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Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:57 am
ours have french, german, spanish, latin, classical greek, classical hebrew.
they are just starting to offer chinese, arabic, and some others that are usually not talked about.
i wish however they would offer portuguese.
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 2:18 pm
My school only offers Spanish and French. I decided to go with the more logical choice and take Spanish. I live in Okla. so it's almost necessary that I know a little. I really enjoy learning Spanish =D
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Fashionable Businesswoman
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Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 7:59 pm
My school offers:
Spanish (up to both AP's)
French (same as Spanish)
German (to AP Language)
Italian (to Italian 3)
Next year, the school will Mandarin Chinese (1,2 and then AP for native speakers)- and I'm going to take that along with AP Spanish language. However, the school isn't certain if they'll have a teacher for this class yet.
In addition to those, I think the school should maybe offer Arabic, Latin (though that's offered online for credit via the site FLVS.net. But it's a horrible site for learning the language), Hindi and/or Russian. Then again, I don't know how many people will take each language XD
It's not so much the number of languages offered at my school that bothers me (some only 2 years of spanish and that's it!), it's how late language education begins in the US school system, how little is required, and how little immersion (and at times interest) there is for learning the languages! Also, it's really hard to find room in your schedule with only 6 different classes. Chinese 1 and AP Spanish are my 'electives' (and I have to take PE online)
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 5:25 pm
Since I live in Mexico, the obvious choice for the most intensely-taught language is English, because we share a border with the world's most powerful nation. However, I found my college to have an excellent language teaching plan: English is mandatory. You have to take a certified English course that consists of 8 levels. Once you clear level 8, you'll have at least a very functional knowledge of Shakespeare's tongue.
Optionally, you can take French, German, Portuguese, Chinese or Italian classes. However, they don't make up for any credits. If they did, that would be another incentive for us, because applying for these subjects would increase your score, and at the same time, your language knowledge. And I tell you, if many companies hire almost instantly someone with a good knowledge of English, then imagine how easily they would hire me, someone who speaks Spanish, English, French and some German.
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Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 6:29 pm
My high school teaches
French: up to French 6
Spanish: up to Spanish 6
Latin: to 4
German: to 4
I really wish that they would expand the language department a little more to incorporate Russian and perhaps an Asian language.
Now, of course, my school system offers a Governor's Summer School for Languages that offers total immersion French and Spanish and then regular Russian and Japanese classes. It is a little pricy though and not many people take advantage of it. I wish i would have done the Total Immersion French or at least the Russian. oh well...
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 4:04 pm
Eccentric Iconoclast I believe that Chinese would be a good language to teach in schools. There are so many people who speak it, and so few who are learning it (comparatively)... Plus, it sounds fun. i agree....i wanna learn Chinese!!
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 1:30 pm
What kind of schools do you mean? Grade schools, colleges?
My original high school taught Latin, German, French, Spanish, and English. Then I was forced into moving to one that only had German and Spanish. >_<;
I think Japanese, Chinese, Korean and the like should be saved for college, because it requires a truckload of studing to learn a new writing system along with your language.
But Latin, French, Italian - those are things that kids might need in the future.
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