What are popular foreign languages do British learn in school?

Question

What are popular foreign languages do British learn in school?

Answer 1

Irish.

Answer 2

French is always done in secondary schools. A lot of schools do both french and Spanish. French and Spanish are the most common and that's what I did in school. Some schools do German and some do Russian.

Answer 3

In numbers goes French, German, Spanish (NOT JUST SOME GERMAN, as another said!) Very little Italian is taught, often in schools funded partly by the Italian govt. to teach the often 2-3rd generation Italian community, in places. Mandarin is gaining in popularity. Urdu is an option, in some places, as are some other languages, spoken by some students, at home.

Spanish was often traditionally taught, in many of our RC secondaries, in parts of the country.

Answer 4

We learn Spanish and French but I know a friend who goes to a different school learns German also.

Answer 5

My school does French and German and for the top sets (smarter kids) they do either French and German with Spanish.

But I know some Grammar schools which also do Chinese-Mandarin and Italian and such.



But usually French, German and Spanish.

Answer 6

i'd wager French is the main elementary yet I dont think of any languages are accepted - all and sundry knows the Brits attitude to distant places language is to talk loudly and slowly in English.

Answer 7

French Spanish and some schools do german :)

Answer 8

in most schools it is french and german but some schools tend to to spanish further through school.

Answer 9

Predominantly French and German at my school. We had the option to study urdu but no one did.