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You. Vodalus Send a noteboard - 28/09/2015 08:05:54 PM

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View original postMy high school offered Spanish, French, German, and Japanese, with Spanish being the most popular choice and Japanese the least. A nearby cousin, in a school with about 500 students per grade vs. the 400 for mine, had the option of going for Russian in addition to the ones I had. That was in the late '80s.

Yeah, that's the sort of thing I had in mind, schools with 3-4 choices at least... but Tom may be right that you have to be pretty lucky to get that many. Like I said, I'd like to see the full statistics on that, as it's hard for an outsider like me to see how representative any single person's experiences were.

Because you mentioned some schools, representative of America on the whole or not, which seemed to jibe more with my experience than with what the others have said. RT is older than I am, but I think Tom and Cannoli are a few years younger. And so I'm curious about what you've seen. What are the influencing factors when it comes to national region, urban-suburban-rural divide, local ethnic demographics, decade, and local employers. As to the last there, I have no doubt the business done with Japan ( via the port of Seattle but mostly Boeing) led to the introduction of Japanese classes at my school. My teacher said something like a dozen schools in the whole of America offered it at that time.

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German? - 27/09/2015 03:21:51 PM 602 Views
Do you have the full statistics? That'd be interesting. - 27/09/2015 04:59:40 PM 563 Views
Can you list those language choices? - 28/09/2015 07:21:37 AM 640 Views
Wait, who is that a question to? - 28/09/2015 06:38:20 PM 580 Views
You. - 28/09/2015 08:05:54 PM 741 Views
Oh. I couldn't tell you exactly. - 28/09/2015 08:39:53 PM 611 Views
My local High School only offers Spanish and French - 28/09/2015 05:34:27 PM 563 Views
Indeed. - 27/09/2015 11:41:07 PM 536 Views
My experience is similar. - 02/10/2015 09:14:58 PM 547 Views
That 43% is another BS survey result - 28/09/2015 04:36:51 PM 596 Views

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