As an American who grew up at a religious school in the 90s, we absolutely did not (or at least I never had access to one). Obviously places like Kora or Tibet have been effected in their history (I still want to read your answers 😁), but what about, for example, New Zealand? Or Sierra Leonne? Or Portugal? I'm just curious to see how pervasive the new Global Language already is by this point.

BonusQuestion: Is it mostly following their Belt-and-Road Initiative? Wouldn't that be something?

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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

The French education system require to study two foreign language among a long list, so why most people take English + German/Spanish/Italian some people take rare language like Chinese.

To my understanding rare and hard language like Chinese (or Russian) are also a way to be admitted to a better school/class than your local school, so it's often used by rich kids who want to bypass their local public school and be affected to a good school/class

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago

    Danke schön. This was basically the 'format' of answers I was expecting. I believe some language options existed earlier than this for my situation, but it was never a requirement until high school, and even then, a lot of students (around me/from my perspective) didn't care about it all that much

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