Do you have to learn the any foreign languages in the school?

No, I didn't have to. It would have been nice if I had to, it would have helped me at some point in my life later on. But we Indians mostly know multiple languages as India is linguistically diverse. We have regional languages in most of the states and as lots of people move in from one state to another for different reasons, we are always in with a chance to pick up a language we don't know.

Good evening, youless. Since we are in the same country, I think that we understand more of the reasons behind why English is taught in schools in China. So far as I know, English is widely used in many fields and lines of business. You know, ever since China joined WTO, it seems that one with a good understanding of English is able to find a job much easier than one who does not...

I went to school a long time ago. My first school was in Finland, and after moving to Sweden with my parents, I had to learn Swedish. It was rather easy - children learn very fast - and I was only ten. The next year we started learning English, it was in the fifth grade. I had also the opportunity - at age 14 to learn German and a couple of years later a little French. I continued to study as an adult and learned more Finnish - it is rather difficult, especially the grammar - I thought it would be easy since I already could speak and read it but I was wrong.. I love to learn foreign languages, so I also continued improving my English and added Spanish - it is easy to pronounce for Finnish people. Here in myLot we all have the opportunity to train our English skills, so it is a big advantage to communicate with people from almost all countries..

When I was in school , we got about three years of a foreign language in highschool only.These days I don't know if the kids learn any foreign language at all.

I was just going to say no, I didn't learn any foreign language. But reading the whole post I am reminded that English is a foreign language. Just forgot LOL So, we too learned English till university.. would have liked to learn some other too though

hello youless, we are taught in primary school the language English. it is our second language here in the Philippines. while i was in college, the language Spanish was in the curriculum hence i also had to learn it. but the saying practice makes perfect is true. since there is not many who speak the language Spanish here, it is just forgotten as the years passed. ann

Hmm... when you say foreign language, do you mean the language that you do not commonly use at home? Or do you mean a language that is not used in your country? Here where I am, all of us have to take up Mandarin and English for the Chinese. Malay and English for the Malays. Tamil and English for the Indians. In the higher levels of studies, some also get to take up German, French, Italian or some other foreign language as part of their curriculum.

I have learned English, German and French at school. We started learning English in the 5th grade, and in the 7th grade we started learning German. Those languages were compulsary and everyone had to study both languages. At some private schools they start learning English in the 3rd grade or even before, but I think it is pretty common to start learning English in the 5th grade. In the 9th grade we were able to learn French if we wanted to, but that subject was not compulsary. I chose to learn to learn French, because I have always been interested in languages, and I thought that it was interesting to learn one more language When I went to high school the school was divided into two different lines: There was a language line and a science line. I chose the language line, and in high school I learned English, German, French and Latin.

Back in high school and college, Spanish was mandatory in our curriculum. We did learn the conjugations, could understand a little bit, speak baroque style... But it was fun while it lasted - the learning I mean. Now I wish I took it seriously.

Yeah, we had to learn English from the 1st grade to the 12th. We also had to study Arabic from the 7th grade.

Hi youless Same here. We have to learn English since kindergaten (only about number and animals) until university. Even, I know some of the worker or housewives or professional who still take English course. i think in this era of globalization, ability to speak and understand English is very important. One of my friend in US said that he must study English too (but of course, the more complicated one). Now, Mandarin / Chinese language start to be learned widely in my country too. ff I'm not mistaken, you always add "I love China" below your response. So I guess you are from China! Lucky you, you can understand it! FOr me, the Hanyu, Chinese writing, it's quiet complicated!

Hello youless, The language English has been my number two language secondary to my primary language in my country. but there are times that i am learning a few japanese based from the songs that i hear in the anime movies and series as well. Unfortunately, i haven't formally learned any other language than just english or a bit japanese, very little spanish too. but unless it's needed i won't other learn other language for now.

Hello! Here in France, we learn english at secondary school, then we must choose a second language to learn, we have choice beetween german or spanish and i chose spanish. We learn spanish until the end of high school and we stop english at the end of university.

I learn English and Arabic since I was in kindergarten and I'm lucky to study in a university that incorporate both languages as medium of communication too.

In Canada 9 privinces and 2 teretories are English speaking places, but Quebec, the 10th promise is French, thus in Quebec they learn English as a second language, and in the other parts of Canada, we all learn French as a second langauge.

English is the main language we have to learn when we're in school. Although, that might be more considered Grammar, which is not necessarily a language class. When we get into high school, we have the option of taking language classes. When I was in school, the only choices were French and Spanish. There weren't any other choices until college.

Well here in the UK english tends to be the first language for most children, but they used to have an extra language in the curriculum which was a compulsory subject but I believe it has now changed. I don't the kids here have to do another language anymore - which is a shame in my opinion - it's always a good thing to learn another language.

My school taught as English in all academic subjects and only one subject are taught in our local languages. Their their degrees in college where students are required to learn other languages such as those who take linguistic languages. While the Muslim students are taught to write and read the Arabic languages as part of their religion. Other races who also live in my country includes Chinese immigrants they have their own schools as usual the primary levels students are taught the basic Chinese languages and calligraphy. While the Indian, Koreans and other foreign students are enroll in English institution to learn the English languages and many comes to my country to learn it because the cost of education is cheap.

Hi youless. In here as in your case, english is being taught since primary school. Even before that, in pre-school, we were thought on basic english. My university requires us to learn english, although if you already know english you can take an exam to convalidate the credits.

We are encouraged to learn Spanish. My high school offers Spanish and German, but they really want you to learn Spanish since it's a growing language in the US. I took one year and aced it, but didn't take the other three years because I the college I'll be attending doesn't require you to have any language courses.