what language did you learn in highschool?

[rippytrippy]

jw :3 i know in the USA you have to take 2 years of learning a certain language,,,, i think like Spanish and Latin are most common? But I'm just wondering if someone else decided to learn some other language instead haha

I personally wanna learn German or Japanese. Idk, Spanish seems really boring and mundane for me,,,, and since I'm homeschooled I get the option heheheh

 

[lilan castel]

In Israel we have to start to learn English on the 3rd grade and Arabic isn't mandatory but my school chose to teach us Arabic

 

[urbanbushmonkey]

In the UK it's usually either French or Spanish. We got either French or Spanish at my school based on what your form group was. Groups 1-4 were French and 5-8 were Spanish.

As group 2 I was gutted because the Spanish learners got a week long trip to Spain but us French learners got a single day trip

 

[Anhaga]

It used to be French or Spanish in the US--Latin was relatively uncommon and only happened in some districts (in my rural high school, Latin was a course you had to do over video). I did French, in no small part because my elementary school had also taught French. The older I get, the more I wish I knew at least basic Spanish; in the US, Spanish is a seriously useful language.

 

[__Fishy__]

My school only offered Spanish so that's what I was forced to take. Unfortunately we didn't learn anything because over the years the students never respected the teacher and so eventually he just started giving out worksheets and let us play on our phones

As an adult I now study Japanese and would like to learn Spanish since I grew up around the language even at one point speaking more Spanish than English

 

[Akemisora]

In Indonesia, especially Yogyakarta (idk about other regions) Indonesian and English are taught in every school, Javanese is also taught as local content. If you're going to Islamic school, then Arabic will be taught too. In my school there's Japanese and German, I chose Japanese.

 

[Nekoruchii]

The school I enrolled myself to when I was at high school taught basic French greetings, just the very basic one like Bonjour, Bonsoir, Merci.. I forget the rest and I get confused with the spelling nowadays. But normally schools here don't do those.

 

[Magically Clueless]

i took spanish and french, but i took more french classes. i absolutely loved it, i wish i could've learned more but that kinda tapered out in college

 

[Daikon Ocelot]

In high school, I learn English, Indonesian, Javanese, and Chinese Mandarin. English is a fav of mine. I really like learning it. It's my main language online. While Indonesian is my main language in everyday life. I use it to talk with my family, friends, neighbors, and food vendors who usually drive around our neighborhood. As for Javanese, hell, I am so bad at it. I like the language though, especially its script, we usually call it Aksara Jawa, but still I can't speak the language really well. Finally, for Chinese Mandarin, I am honestly not even interested with it. My head explodes before I can get to enjoy it. I mean like every words has its own different letters (and there's like thousands of words), and different tone and sound already means a very different thing (my tongue got twist real bad). And so, I gave up on that one, I prefer learning Japanese, Korean, or Arabic instead.

 

[iridium quality]

Depends where you live. If you live in the US Spanish is a good second language to know, but also if you want to move to someplace when you’re older or take a gap year or become an exchange student it would be a good idea to learn that language.

 

[Lew Zealand]

I took Spanish starting in 7th grade and had 6 years by the time High School wrapped up. Took more in College and ended up with more than 7 years total. I was the one class I consistently did well in so yeah, I kinda kept it in there to buffer against, well, everything else. At that time it was not clear that Mandarin would eventually be of such use so I'd seriously consider that as well nowadays. However learning another language nowadays is not in the cards and if it was, I'd choose C++ or something similarly computer-relevant instead.

 

[Lappy]

I took Japanese. I'm in Hawai‘i, and at the time, the only other language options at my school were Spanish and Hawaiian. My sister took Spanish, French, and Latin, so at some point before I got to high school, French and Latin were dropped. I don't know if it was because of a lack of enough interested students or the teachers retiring or otherwise leaving the school.

I checked my high school's website, and they now offer Ilokano (a Filipino language) and Chinese. They don't specify whether it's Mandarin or Cantonese, though. Most of the old plantation Chinese immigrants in Hawai‘i were Cantonese speakers, but I'm thinking it would be more useful to learn Mandarin in current times. But then... you could say the same about Ilokano vs. Tagalog, though maybe not as strongly. It's interesting that Ilokano is offered but not Tagalog.

Spanish is practically a standard foreign language offered at American schools. I wonder how many schools in the US do NOT offer it as an option at all. Unlike pretty much anywhere in the US (excepting perhaps Alaska), the utility of understanding Spanish in Hawai‘i falls below so many other languages, in my opinion. I mean, it's good if you plan to travel (because there are large portions of the world where it is the primary, or at least, a secondary language), or if you just want an easier language to learn (since it's closer to English, or to a lesser extent, to Filipino languages). But with so many immigrant groups from Asia and Oceania here, you might be better off learning any of 5-10 other languages (and cultures) before Spanish.

 

[Cuusardo]

I took 2 years of French in high school. But then I grew up in a bilingual family that spoke English and French, so it was the easiest As ever.

 

[Alfyna]

Latin! I was very thankful they offered it all four years because with a little help from a dictionary, I can now reliably translate all the romance languages that resulted from it, especially Italian. Super useful language to learn.

 

[Xristos]

I got to learn French. Now I speak 4 languages, Greek, ancient Greek, English and french

 

[starbrite]

I'm from the US and had the option to pick French or Spanish in high school. I wish they had more options, but I picked Spanish because it seemed more useful for where I lived. I got up to a second level in Spanish and my teacher was OK, but all I remember after all these years is just how to order food at a restaurant, ask for the bathroom, and common vocabulary lol. And sometimes I can understand what someone is saying/typing to me lol. I wanted to learn Japanese or Korean back then, so what I did was taught myself a little Japanese in high school-college, and then Korean in the second half of college-now. I retained a lot more of that than the Spanish, maybe because I was more interested and invested in it and used it a lot more.
Thinking back on it, a small part of me wishes I could remember more of the Spanish I learned, but I never have the need to use it outside of common words where I live now so I guess it's OK for now haha.

 

[lmizutani]

We had the option of taking French or German. I took French (took German for one year in university). Now I'm doing both through Duolingo (I also have Japanese on there but have not touched that one in a long while). The fact that my parents are Japanese has absolutely nothing to do with it :p

 

[RennyBenny]

i had french my freshman year and i switched schools after that, so then i had spanish in my sophomore year and that was all i could take for the rest of my high school experience :( now i'm learning dutch, finnish, italian, greek and relearning french since it's my first language but when we moved to america i never used it and it left my mind :P so far dutch is my favorite :D

 

[NextXander]

i had french my freshman year and i switched schools after that, so then i had spanish in my sophomore year and that was all i could take for the rest of my high school experience :( now i'm learning dutch, finnish, italian, greek and relearning french since it's my first language but when we moved to america i never used it and it left my mind :P so far dutch is my favorite :D

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[astatine210]

I went to an international school so they had a number of different options: French, Spanish, Chinese, German, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, and at some point they even had Swahili as another option. For me I took Filipino and Spanish in high school though I kind of wish I learned Japanese instead (I was super into anime at the time). I ended up marrying into a French Canadian family so I ended up learning French later in life.