Are other languages still taught in schools?

[clarer0110]

In my last year at junior school, we learnt German and the other local junior school learnt French, then in senior school we could take up the other language or another science as our options, does anyone know if languages are still taught?

TIA

[princesskerry]

OH's class are taught French and German, they are year 5 but I'm not sure if the years prior to that are taught another language.

[britchic4]

DS's school teach French from Yr 3.

[icho]

dd1 learns french and is in year 1.

[Gizmos]

I did French ; German and Latin - also had to fit in Statistics - so that as two extra languages and Statistics on top of the normal curriculum (and no didnt do extra hours)

the lower classes actually did no languages at all and did extra English and Maths

[icho]

I did French ; German and Latin - also had to fit in Statistics - so that as two extra languages and Statistics on top of the normal curriculum (and no didnt do extra hours)

the lower classes actually did no languages at all and did extra English and Maths

mum and dad made me do afrench GCSe as said it would be useful... 20 years on and i'm still waiting for it to be useful!

I was awful. I was in top sets for other subjects and languages i just can't do. When i worked overseas i did learn to hear setswana but could not speak it!

[angelic]

French, German and Spanish are all taught to GCSE level at local high school.

I have also known bi-lingual or students whose first language isn't English to take GCSE in their mother tongue.
To date from memory, these have included Portugese, Russian and Polish.

[addictedtosaving]

My daughter is in year 7 and she has done French, German and Spanish this year. She has to choose which of these she wants to carry on with for next year. She has opted for French as she has found this the easiest so far.

I did French and German at school and have to say have hardly had any need to use it. (apart from when we went to France last year and I used phrases such as Je Voudrais, escusez moi! and bonjour. Fortunately the majority of the French people spoke much better English than I speak French so we managed to get by for a week;))

[navara]

I did French ; German and Latin - also had to fit in Statistics - so that as two extra languages and Statistics on top of the normal curriculum (and no didnt do extra hours)

the lower classes actually did no languages at all and did extra English and Maths

And if this was the way now we would be far better off

[VeryTrying]

My granddaughters' school does French from reception and it's amazing how natural it is to them. The 6-yr-old is just finishing her third year and can actually talk properly in French (only bits, of course, but confidently and fluently).

[Serialdieter]

my ds is 4 and does french in reception - it is amazing listening to him try to talk french. dd is year 8 and french is compulsory in her high school, german was optional (after 1st term of year 7) by invitation only based on french ability

[Mamzie]

Wales does bilingulism as part of the Curriculum from nursery, so all kids do some welsh from toddlers groups onwards, plus parents have the option of a welsh educational route.

My kids are in the English route but have Welsh numbers, phrases, nouns, etc as part of most lessons, along with a French club (they're Reception and Year 2). We also do some limited Spanish at home.