When you were in high school, what languages were offered?

[Grappleboxing]

When I went through high school, Spanish, French, Italian, and Mandarin Chinese were offered. What about you?

I might be wrongly assuming, but those who went through high school in the 80s had the above three, but Japanese instead of Mandarin, due to Japan's strong economy at the time. Japan still has a great economy now, but it seems like it was poised to take over the world then. I'm not completely sure as I wasn't alive during that time.

This thread is geared mainly towards Americans, but people from all over the world, please chime in.

I totally forgot about Latin and American Sign Language being offered as language classes. Lol.

 

[Tamriel Terror]

i went to a highschool where if you drove a lifted truck, blasted country, and wore cowboy boots and rebel flags then you were "sexy" according to most of the white girls.

Needless to say it was a low quality trash school and we offered spanish only. (The classes were a joke though)

 

[Bobby Boulders]

Spanish, French, German.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

I took courses in Latin and Greek growing up, and continued in Latin during high school as well as Spanish.

 

[Hogey]

Spainish French mandarin Japanese

 

[Hagelslag2]

Dutch, English, French, German, Latin and Ancient Greek were mandatory for the first two years, after which you chose Latin or Greek or continued both. The other languages everyone had to do for the full 6 years. We had Italian, Spanish and Mandarin as electives.

 

[MoparOrNoCar]

Spanish, French and sign language. I never took any of them though. Everyone was constantly saying 2 years was mandatory but when I was signing up for my freshman classes, I looked at the list of electives and foreign language was not mandatory at all. It was in a block of other electives so I just took auto shop and art instead. Literally every other kid I talked to thought that they had to take a foreign language to graduate.

 

[MaureenCretis]

French, German, both taught badly. I sat French at A-level, and of my class of 16, there were 5 passes. 3 C's, 1 D, and 1 E grade. The other 11 failed. Fortunately for the school, this was before school league tables, so nobody lost their jobs.

 

[Misfit23]

Spanish only. I got a C in it.

My parents are Hispanics...

 

[DrVanNostrand]

German was only option

 

[Primitivo]

Spanish (native), English (basic), French (less than basic) and some teachers were down with letting us practice Cunnilingus (advanced).

 

[RayA]

i went to a highschool where if you drove a lifted truck, blasted country, and wore cowboy boots and rebel flags then you were "sexy" according to most of the white girls.

Needless to say it was a low quality trash school and we offered spanish only. (The classes were a joke though)

I went to a Vo-Tech High School. What you described was basically most of the construction (or was it the automotive class? both maybe?) class, minus the considered sexy part. Well actually for few girls, yes. Rebel flags, Country music, lifted trucks, work boots, plaid shirts, and chewing tobacco.

To answer the Original post, my school offered Spanish, Latin, and French. That was it. I took Spanish, and cannot speak a sentence of it today. Wish I had taken Latin. Would have really helped in Allied Health.

 

[BisexualMMA]

English, French, Spanish, Japanese and Ebonics.

 

[Grappleboxing]

i went to a highschool where if you drove a lifted truck, blasted country, and wore cowboy boots and rebel flags then you were "sexy" according to most of the white girls.

Needless to say it was a low quality trash school and we offered spanish only. (The classes were a joke though)

Soooo, Iowa or somewhere in the Midwest?

 

[EmpireShallFall]

Arabic, English, French, and German.

 

[mjmj]

We had French and Spanish, that's it.

 

[MusterX]

Spanish, French, German.

Same here only add Latin. No idea why Latin was stuck in there but it was.

 

[dc007]

Spanish, French, German.

same

 

[mmascene]

Spanish and Sign Language.

 

[Marfa]

At my HS you had compulsory English (unless you could prove you didn't need it with official documents), and then you had to choose between French and German.