i am in the u.s. my high school (~ 40 years ago) offered spanish, french, german, and swedish. the district had asl classes but that was outside of school and open to the community. juniors and seniors could take classes at a nearby college, which opened up other language choices.

My schools in the US:

Only English for all of elementary school. Starting in middle school, students can choose to take Spanish, French, Latin or German (in descending order of popularity). A bus would take you to one particular high school in the county for Mandarin, Greek, Russian, Japanese, etc. For the advanced diploma, you needed to take 3 years of a foreign language course. The full sequence offered for Spanish, French, Latin, and German takes 6 years.

India - local language, English and Hindi

(Language is a controversial issue in India, and the present situation is more a political compromise than what’s most useful, with many rules and exceptions, and some states / schools simply ignoring the whole compromise altogether.)

US, English and Spanish. But we had the option, schedule permitting, to go to one of the other highschools in town to take Latin, German, French, or ASL. One friend took ASL, the rest of us took Spanish. I still speak it every day.

I grew up in Hungary and Germany, and lived most of my early adulthood in Hungary. Later in life I moved to Québec, where I reside now.

In Germany, I had English starting grade five.

In Hungary, Russian was mandatory until 1989. After '89 it was elective between Russian, German, English or, in some schools, French. I opted for German starting grade 6 at a German ethnicity school, but felt like it was a mistake, since I was already native level, but the (non-native) teachers kept trying to one-up me in their broken knowledge of the language. Starting grade eight I’ve transferred to a school that had Russian only, but since I had no prior knowledge of it, but already spoke German and English, I was exempted from it. In high school I’ve opted for English.

My kids go to French language schools in Montréal and have English as a foreign language. We speak English at home. Almost ten years in and I still don’t speak French. My kids don’t speak either Hungarian or German.

Just like the other Canadian poster’s daughter in this thread stated, my wife learned near native level French, even as a non-Québecois, simply on the premise of Canada supposedly being a bilingual country. This seems to hold a lot of truth in Ontario, Montréal and New Brunswick, but outside of these provinces and cities, it seems to be much more mono-lingual in practice. Montréal is truly wild though. People very often speak three or more languages here.

In Australia I had Indonesian.

korea, mostly english but we also have basic chinese or japanese classes for a year or two

I’m Canadian, so French. I did it for six years and I learned more than I thought, but I still don’t really speak French.

I’m in australia, and moved around a bit while i was young, I had lessons

in primary schools in:

english, german, japanese, indonesian, sign language, japanese again

in high schools:

english, japanese, french, german, and french again

In australia it was french in primary and high school.

US; ASL, French, German, Spanish, and Japanese (which appears to have been replaced with Korean)

I took two years of German, and one each of French and Spanish. I knew that without someone to practice with, I was going to forget the advanced stuff anyway, so opted for basic familiarity of three.

I’m in Australia, we had French or Japanese. I took Japanese.

West coast of Canada and in my daughters high school they have French, Spanish, and Hul’q’umi’num, which is the local First Nations language. Which I think is pretty freaking cool. Shes taking French though, since as she says, we are a bilingual country.

I lived overseas growing up so my choices were french, Spanish, and Arabic. I could have been fluent in Arabic! But nooooo, I took spanish. Think I speak spanish at all?

USA, too—Spanish and French.

If we’d had a third language it probably would have been Chinese instead of German—the cultural influence of German was minimal in the part of California where I grew up.

USA here. It was Spanish, French or German, too. I took Spanish for extra credit. It was an easy A as I grew up speaking it.