which languages are your dc learning?

Year 8 DS does French, Spanish and Latin.

He's been doing French since Y3, Spanish & Latin since the start of Y7. He's a 6a in French and loving the Spanish and Latin, hoping to keep them up when he goes to Senior school at Y9 (3 tier system here).

DD is in Year 7 at a local comp.

All Y7 do two languages. Either French/Spanish or French/German. DD is doing German. This was allocated randomly.

I think there is an option to take Latin from Y9.

Ds, yr 7, non-selective independent, is doing French and Spanish through til end KS3 with choice of one of those or Italian from scratch at GCSE (one at least is compulsory).

I think the teaching so far is very good (Spanish is native speakers; French not so).

The textbooks seem to be very similar to when I was at school and they are learning verb conjugation straight away (a teacher friend from a local comp - language specialist school no less - was horrified and said they don't do verbs til yr 8 or 9...???)

I think learning French and Spanish together is harder than French and German which we did at school; he does get some vocab muddled up between the two.

My DSSs (French lycée) are learning English and Spanish. They are quite well taught - they have mostly native-speaker teachers (always for Spanish) and get good marks. We supplement their English very significantly, but tbh most children at their school have English tutors and/or extensive travel to Anglophone countries.

I think dd knew 6 questions in advance which all but one of the questions she would be asked in the exam would be selected from. The remaining exam question would be similar or related - on one occasion she accurately guessed exactly what it would be.

(accurately obviously)

Not sure about all exam boards, but my DC have to prepare a presentation for their orals so whilst they don't know the exact questions they can predict what might come up fairly acuurately.

"My dcs are amazed that I went into my oral exams not knowing the themes or questions in advance.
Do they really know what questions they are going to get?!!!"
My DS2's school does the iGCSE I believe they dont know what they are going to get asked in the oral!

dd learned french, latin, spanish, italian, german, japanese and mandarin at various stages at school. She learned very little of most of them though so they are of no use at all except to superficially impress the occasional asian friend she meets. Even french which she took to gcse and got an A* she can barely speak as it does seem to be more a question of ability to memorise passages than actually being able to speak the language these days.

"My dcs are amazed that I went into my oral exams not knowing the themes or questions in advance."

Do they really know what questions they are going to get?!!!
It's no wonder we see so many A and A* grades then. I did O levels way back in 1975 and we didn't have a clue what we would be asked. We just did a 2 year syllabus and could have been asked about anything we had learned during that time. The same applied to the A levels as well.

DS1 "high performing academy" but significant dyslexia does not do any MFL. DS2 top boys boarding school does two MFL French is compulsory and Latin also compulsory all taught in classes with no more than 12 in one case only 7 the teaching is excellent..

DD is year 8 and is learning French. I'm not convinced they teach it very well as I have French A level and have spotted mistakes in the teacher's marking. DD say that her teacher speaks French with a Barnsley accent!

French and Latin. And he'll do Spanish next year if he does well in French.

He enjoys them, and what I've seen looks OK.

DD1, yr11. oversubscriibed, just above average comp.
French, German & Spanish (just a term of each) in Yr7.
French compulsory for all from yr8, plus a choice of the other two (DD1 did German).
From yr10, after choosing options in yr9, only continued with French. for GCSE. Not great teaching at this level, she has the only teacher that does not teach A'level, and only teaches the mixed ability group to a B/C standard, although DD is hoping for an A, and planning to take French A'level.

My dd is 14 and in the year above for her age, she learned latin last year, did it in 1 year and got A she is also learning Spanish and Mandarin and has already taken her French GCSE A My ds is 16, he's already taken his GCSE French and is now learning Spanish, which he loves, both of my children are in the same academic, year but in different schools.

DD has done French, Spanish and Latin from year 7, she is now in year 8. Teaching seems very good, DD seems to have learnt loads in past 2 years and enjoys the lessons.

DS still in year 6, does French and Latin. Teaching seems very good, have even managed to spark some enthusiasm from very laid back DS!

dd and ds1 are both learning German. taught very well, teacher is fantastic and really encourages both. Told that German is a good language to learn for dyslexics as it 'makes sense'? Either way, they both love to speak it at home as I don't know any German!
ds2 is learning french although he's primary. (but very happy with how he's being taught too!).

Fluent swearing.

French for a couple of years, dropped it for Spanish and studying Latin atmo. Pick something that they are likely to use.

ZZen - French from Y1, Latin from Y5, Greek from Y8, German from Y9 (when he changed schools), Russian (depending on performance in other languages) would start in Y10, but he would take French & Latin GCSEs a year early at the end of Y10.

French, German and Latin. Don't know yet what I think about the teaching; she's only had a term.

DD1 & DD2 both did French & Italian to year 9 & then stayed with Italian for GCSE. DD1 got an A & DD2 takes hers this year, don't expect an A but a good C. Different capabilities for them both.