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Ruesailmana: How many languages were mandatory in high school in your country?

TheGrimReeple: One, I guess. From what I understand, at the government level (state government, rather than national, btw), there's no required number of languages, only a required number of hours of language lessons. It's up to the schools whether they deliver that all in one language, or several.
sparkous: Complicated question: the school program changes all the time in France.
TomTi89: We did 3 years of French or German [I did French] with no qualifications, and then we were supposed to do another 2 years which would lead to a qualification, but I actually wasn't put into that. A mixture of my immaturity at the time and my results made them realise it wasn't worth it for anybody involved. Nowadays I am far more interested in other languages than I was then.
pwilz: None, besides native English. College-bound students were encouraged to study a foreign language because many universities require them for certain degrees. I took two years of French in high school and two years of German in college.
PolarDad: Mandatory? Only English but we are required to take two years of a foreign language
pricero1: None were mandated by law, but in my school we had to do French up to the exams at 16. There were options to add German and Latin.
Ruesailmana: We were the first group in a new school system; the second phase. Before Dutch, English, German and French (and Latin or Greek for gymnasium students) were mandatory until third grade, now they all became mandatory until the exams... And they told us that.. in third grade. Needless to say, language was not my forté. I still did five of them ánd Indonesian at home. But I forgot everything, except for Dutch and English.