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My old high school offered spanish, german, french, japanese and te reo maori. Which isn't a lot when you think about it really

I think schools should definately offer the native language of the country (like maori here)

My university offers Cook Islands Maori, Croatian, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Mäori Studies (Te Wänanga o Waipapa), Pacific Studies, Polish, Russian, Samoan, Spanish and Tongan.

So I'm happy xd

My high school offers French and Spanish foreign language classes. I wish they taught German and ancient languages like Greek or Latin.

may i aslo add that they would gladly add japanese, since the school has an anime club, but there was no japanese teachers available.

My old High School offers Spanish only stressed (Godamn Nationalists xd )

GDI! I think All schools should have at least these 5: Arab, English, Spanish, Chinese and Latin XD.

I dont see the fuzz is all about though. In a couple of years time almost everybody will speak english but learning languages is fun and what better way to impress a hot foreigner than to speak her native tougne.

My School offers English, French, Spanish, and Chinese. And it should add Polish, German, and Russian for no reason other than I would have liked to take them.

My High School ... Mh you had to take
French [ eh... we're in France XD So mandatory] and then you had to choose at least 2 languages between English, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian, Polish, and Chinese . You could also take Latin as an option. Maybe ancient Greek, but I'm not so sure about that. Oh and you could also learn the local dialect, Elsassian.
Although generally , people keep the 2 foreign languages they've learnt in Middle School.

You could have classes by erm... correspondence ? too, just for foreign languages, and thus choose whatever language you wanted.

Maybe they should have added Portuguese too ? Or maybe Arabic

Currently, my school offers English(Because it's the mothertongue), French(For some weird reason - we're nowhere near anywhere that speaks French) and Spanish.

I think that they should teach languages related to the countries surrounding your area and languages that may be useful in the future. So, in this case, I agree with the original poster - Eastern languages.

(My old school offered French and German as mandatory classes, since it was in the UK, but I'm not sure if they offered any others.)

Edit: Being realistic here, they(my school district)'d only chose languages that was popular among the students. However, Asian languages, particularly Japanese, are becoming increasingly popular among people my age, so wouldn't it make sense to consider adding that language? Then, there's also the issue of finding teachers of the language, etc..

Edit2: You know, I originally started learning Russian for no reason, but it's actually pretty fun now! Learning languages, that is.