What languages did you do at school?

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Spanish for me

French, German and Latin all to O level, and French to A level, plus Italian GCSE alongside A levels.

French, German and Latin GCSEs (French was compulsory) and French and German A levels.

Latin, French, German, Spanish, Russian.

French and Irish, but I did LC German via night classes, then Spanish at university, Latin as a graduate student, and Arabic while living in the ME, and picked up Italian later. I love languages.

French and German.

Neither helped me much when living and working in Japan!

Year 7-9 we had one term of Spanish, 1 term of German and 1 term of French and then we had to pick which one we wanted to do for GCSE’s, back in 1999-2004 when we had to do a language for GCSE’s 😀I picked Spanish

No languages past the age of 13. I'm older than the national curriculum and rubbish at languages. Welsh until then, plus French aged 11-13.

I did French and German. Only other available was Latin which only 2 people in our year did.

When my Granny died and we were clearing out her things we found some books for learning Esperanto.
She was Welsh but of the generation who would have been discouraged to speak Welsh so I always wonder if this was her thinking "fine...if I can't speak my own language I will learn this one".
My daughter recently decided to learn it using Duolingo.
I said "that will be useful for when you meet the other 9 people in the world who speak it" 😂😂😂😂😂

Welsh until we moved from Wales y8, German to GCSE, French to A level.

French, German and Latin.

Latin so useful for understanding grammar and roots for other languages, German only two years so forgotten quite quickly except for being able to recite much of Red Riding Hood by memory. Bizarre.
French - resulted in be able to read fluently but terrified of speaking. Lucky enough to share and office with a French girl later for two years then a transfer to Geneva where I presented work in English and French. Have had some sideways remarks when in Paris over the years about my unexpected Swiss French slang and pronunciation.

French and German both to Higher grade, achieved As in both. 2 was the maximum you could do, or I would have done more, I enjoyed languages and found them quite easy

My school had the option of French, German or Scottish Garlic. I did French Standard Grade and hated it. Zero interest in doing a language Higher.

DS had the option of Spanish, German and French for Nat 5. In S1 & 2 he did a tiny bit of Mandarin and Arabic. I think he might had the choice to do Mandarin again a bit further up the school.

When I went to high school you were randomly assigned to French or German. You couldn’t do both. I got French but my younger brother got German. Then in third year you could choose Spanish for Standard Grade if you wanted. So I did both at Standard Grade then Highers in both French and Spanish in fifth year. I wanted to do a CSYS (now called Advanced Higher) in French in sixth year but my mum decided she wanted me to do science Highers and told me she would throw me out the house if I did the CSYS. So I did Biology and Chemistry Highers instead of the French I loved.

French & Welsh for GCSE
Picked up some Spanish independently (lovely language)

That was still going on when my kids started high school in Scotland in 2018 and 2020 respectively. They decided it depending on what primary school the kids went to. I changed my youngest ‘s primary school so he did French but his big brother had to do German, despite doing French in his primary school

to clarify the French thing wasn’t why he changed school, it was just a consequence

I did French.
The other half of the year did German.
My French teacher taught both and would sometimes forget which one she was teaching and would come in the classroom and start yelling at us in German 😂
We then in 2nd and 3rd year (yr 8&9 now) did a term of Latin, Russian, Urdu, Spanish and French or German (if it was the one you weren't doing already).
So at one point in my life I could say "Hello. My name is xxxx. I am 11/12/13 years old" in 6 languages.
I can't anymore. Forgotten it all. Even the French which I did for 5 years and have a GCSE in 😂

French, German and Spanish GCSEs and French A level.

These days, our children should be learning Spanish and/or Mandarin. However, although there might be plenty of teachers who can teach the former, there aren’t enough who could teach the latter.

I’m currently learning Mandarin (and have been doing for some years now) but it’s a hard language, and takes a lot of time - I wish I’d been doing it at school!

Latin, German, French, Spanish
eish I’d done French or Spanish through to A-level

Eng Lang O Level - my first language - passed!

Latin 5 years
French 5 years
German 1 year, then it became a choice between it and other subjects.

On my own, a bit of Spanish and more than a little of Italian.

French, German and Latin. First two up to ‘A’ level, Latin just for ‘O’ level. Loved Latin, but decided not to take it any further as I hated studying Virgil’s Aeneid. My Latin teacher couldn’t have made it any more boring if she tried.

My school had the option of French, German or Scottish Garlic.

Excellent typo😆

French and Spanish, which I did at A level. I have barely used the French in 40 years but I used Spanish last summer.
I also learnt a few words in Russian. At our school we sang grace before meals, some psalms and O Come All Ye Faithfull in Latin.

French from year 7 to GCSE (compulsory).
Spanish from year 9 (compulsory if you were top set for French) to GCSE (optional).