Official languages in schools as well as government

[Barrett_killz]

Unsurprisingly we're in the poorest country in Europe.

Till Greece comes charging along... We've voted for a new prime minister, I hope he's good.
[/politics]

The most common $170 monthly paycheck wants to have a word with you

[Ostpuff]

I have to learn German in school... not that hard because it's quite similar to Swedish but some grammar rules are really annoying

[tkk7406]

Unsurprisingly we're in the poorest country in Europe.

Till Greece comes charging along... We've voted for a new prime minister, I hope he's good.
[/politics]

The most common $170 monthly paycheck wants to have a word with you

I can't help but admitting that the avg. wages here is about 400 €... Umm... OK... I think it's case closed.


Mind you, apart from Modern Greek, Ancient Greek and English, I also have to learn French. But compared to Michael Rosen, I actually quite enjoy it. At least a lot more than the Greek philological lessons of Anc. Gr. Literature and History (I'm more of a science guy).

[volan123]

The only language besides Slovenian that I have to learn is English, German is only voluntary

The official language in Slovenia is obviosuly Slovene, but there are 2 minorities in Slovenia: Italian and Hungarian. People speaking in those respective languages can learn these languages in school on billingual areas and also all documents, signs etc. are written in Slovene and Italian/Hungarian as well. However, that's not the case in Italy and Hungary, where Slovene ethnical minority doesn't have much rights as of yet and are considered 2nd class citizens.

[Volleybal4life]

The official language of The Netherlands are, Dutch and Frysian (which is an official one through law)

At schools Dutch and English are required, plus a third one. Which most of the time is French or German. That was at least the case when I did go to school back in the 90ies and zeros

[MandelSoft]

In the Netherlands, we have two official languages: Dutch and Frysian. Frysian is however a local official language, spoken in the province of Friesland. The language is closely related to both Dutch and German.

Nowadays, at every level on high school, you have to learn English. At the highest level (vwo, which grants you access to dutch universities) you also need to learn a second foreign language. My choice was German. Und ja, ich kann auch Deutsch sprechen, aber mein Deutsch ist ja ein bischen rostig.

[Volleybal4life]

Great minds think alike?

[lykopotoboy]

The school i go to requires you to take 2 years of any foreign languages, this can be any Language. I took a semester of German and 2 years of Spainish

[Dannu]

I was gouing to learn german but we did not have enought people for that Ich spreche viel deutsch

[Vladzz-G]

In latvian schools, besides our official language - Latvian, you also should learn these foreign languages, like English (most likely, like in all European schools), and, at least, one more foreign language by your choise: Russian and/or German (some schools offers also French language). Note, that you can choose also both extra languages to learn. For example, I have learned in school 3 foreign languages: English, German and Russian (To be honest, Russian language is my mother tongue, so I never count him, as foreign language)

In Latvia also have russian schools, which soon will be edited to latvian schools by our laws, and some polish schools for minor nationalities.