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Choosing only German as a modern language

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MrsMuddle · 26/03/2009 20:11

DS2 is choosing his standard grade options, and for his modern language he wants to do German rather than French.

He's only done German in S2, whereas he's been doing French since P5 (ie 5 years).

In my day (blah blah blah), you could only do German if you did French too.

I somehow don't feel German is as useful as French, (MrsMuddle dons tin hat, and prepares for onslaught!) especially as we go to France for holidays a lot.

He's made his decision, and I respect that, but I'd welcome opinions from modern language teachers..

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mrsgboring · 26/03/2009 20:34

If he prefers German, let him do German. I'm pretty sure German is more widely spoken than French (though French is a UN lang. and German isn't). It's also very handy for Russian or Ancient Greek, should he be interested in the future.

sachertorte · 26/03/2009 20:27

It seems to me that he´s made a decision based on interest and this ís fine. Motivation is the key to language learning and I know through personal experience how I instinctively get on better with some languages whereas others need more work.

To be frank, which language is the most useful doesn´t really come into it IMO. Is he rebelling against YOUR interests btw, or could he be concerend about having his language skills tested regularly on holiday? ; )

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