<p>I'm interested in foreign languages, so I have a few questions. What foreign languages does your school offer? Which one(s) do you take? Which ones do most people take? Why did you pick the one you did?</p>
<p>My school offers Mandarin, Spanish, and French. Most people are in Spanish, just because it’s easier, but I take Mandarin. I have a base in 2 chinese dialects, so I was able to learn it pretty quickly and make AP by soph year.</p>
<p>They offer Spanish and French. I’d say there’s about the same number of people in each one. I took Spanish, and I picked it because I knew some Spanish words and I didn’t know any French.</p>
<p>Mine offers Spanish and French, as well as Native Spanish. Teachers are rather mediocre, so I do supplementary work at home, as well as other languages.</p>
<p>My school only offers Spanish (welcome to the rural south where we can’t afford anything else…). And they usually don’t allow you to take a foreign language until Junior year…
Luckily, I started sophomore year. </p>
<p>Fortunately, my mother foresaw this issue and made me take Spanish lessons in Elementary school.</p>
<p>EDIT: @OP I’m from NC too!</p>
<p>Lol. My small, rural high school offered Spanish, French, German, and Mandarin. We had this deal with some school in China to swap teachers, so we had a Chinese guy teaching high school Mandarin and a Chinese woman teaching a special Mandarin kindergarten class. </p>
<p>Well, there were 2 kids in Mandarin 2 the second year of the program, and the Chinese woman just left. So that didn’t work out. </p>
<p>There were 3 different Spanish teachers over the course of my 4 years in the school, and German was taught by one of the English teachers on the side. (Only 2 years offered) French was taught by the same teacher, though we had 2 student teachers over my 4 years in high school/3 years taking French. The year after I graduated (last year) Madame retired, and in turn, they just cut French because it’d be too much hassle to hire another French teacher. The Mandarin program eventually collapsed, so now there’s 4 levels of Spanish and 2 levels of German. </p>
<p>That’s how a small town does things, and that’s why I feel cheated as I’m now picking up the slack in college. </p>
<p>Just thought I’d share :)</p>
<p>My school has Spanish and French. </p>
<p>I took Spanish because French is absolutely useless in most areas of the US - I’d forget it all the moment I stopped taking classes. Spanish is pretty common here so I’ll actually get to use it. </p>
<p>Most students take Spanish. There are about 15 students in French IV this year but over 50 in Spanish IV.</p>
<p>I come from a pretty big school, so…
American Sign Language I - II
Chinese I - III
French I - V
German I - V
Hebrew I - II
Latin I - V
Japanese I - IV</p>
<p>But only Spanish Latin French and German go up to level 5/AP. my school also used to offer Ancient Greek but not enough kids took it</p>
<p>@liveleadlove @thekeyofgb I’m also from NC!</p>
<p>My school offers Latin (1-3) and Spanish (1-4). You can also take languages online but that seems like a hassle and I feel like I would hate online classes.
I’m taking Honors Spanish 3 right now! Most people take spanish because a lot of people fail Latin. I do have a few friends taking Mandarin and Japanese, though.</p>
<p>We have French, Spanish, Mandarin, Latin and Greek. I take French and Latin but I know some Spanish.</p>
<p>We have Spanish, Arabic, and French. Most people take Spanish or Arabic, but I noticed that a lot of the incoming freshmen take French.</p>
<p>My school has Spanish, Italian, French, and German; in that order of popularity. Almost all the not-honors kids take Spanish, almost all of the honors/AP kids take Italian, and there’s one mixed 11th-grade class each for French and German. I take both French and Spanish. </p>
<p>My old district offered those four plus Mandarin, Latin, and American Sign Language.</p>
<p>I noticed I’m the only one whose school has Italian so far…lol I thought that’d be more popular.</p>
<p>My school offers
Spanish
Spanish native speaker
Korean
Chinese
Tagalog
French</p>
<p>I take Spanish</p>
<p>My school has French, Spanish German and Chinese.</p>
<p>If you want get to AP level in French or Spanish you need to start in middle school, like 7th grade. For the others it doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>I’ve been taking French since seventh grade.</p>
<p>It’s pretty evenly mixed at my school. We have a large asain population, so maybe slightly more chinese.</p>
<p>i think my school just offers the standard: spanish, french, german, latin. but at least all the levels are from 1 to ap</p>
<p>i just take french</p>
<p>most people take spanish</p>
<p>why did i choose french? honestly idk. i should have taken spanish.</p>
<p>My school had the usual:
- French
- Spanish
- Japanese
- German
- Latin
(you can also learn Korean, Chinese, and Arabic through this program that lets you take classes at another school that offers them)</p>
<p>Anyway, I chose Latin because in freshman year I thought it was fun and I liked it, but as time went on and I started listening to European music in their native languages, I began to kinda hate Latin because it was a dead language and all we did in class was read Roman literature about war and stuff and I didn’t like it. I mean, Latin was a bit useful when I listened to Italian music, but wouldn’t it be easier to just learn Italian itself? But I stuck with Latin for four years because 1) I liked my teacher and it was pretty easy to get an A in that class and 2) I really wanted to learn German, but I decided to didn’t want to learn it in high school because there would always be those kids in class who didn’t take it seriously and they would make fun of the language and everything and ruin the experience for me.</p>
<p>My school offers French, Italian, Chinese and Spanish. Most people take Chinese because it’s super easy at our school (no one learns anything). I personally took Spanish because as a first language that I actually wanted to learn, I felt it would be best to start with something simple and practical. My area has a lot of people from El Salvador and I’m moving back to L.A… So my Spanish has come in handy.</p>
<p>My school offers Spanish, French, and German. We use to offer Japanese and Chinese, but not enough people took them.</p>
<p>You guys are all so lucky!
My school only offers Spanish…
I’m a Cantonese speaking Chinese who wants to learn Mandarin but can’t and I don’t have the free time for self-study.</p>
<p>My school offers:
French
Spanish
German
Chinese
Latin</p>
<p>I take Chinese in school and Japanese out of school on the weekends.</p>