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[-] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 weeks ago

Latin as first (second) language sounds so phenomenally weird to me. How late in school did you start learning? For me it was third grade in primary school, I can still remember that first sheet with pictures of "tree" and "umbrella" as it felt so alien to me for things to suddenly be called differently.

There was a choice for second (third) language in sixth class, I chose Latin there as well (there were only 2 choices, Latin and French). Unfortunately had to change school 2 years later and they only had French, so now I can't speak either. 🥴

English however never was optional (your post make it sound like it was for you, pretty sure no state does it that way though…?). In fact for all I know it's one of the primary classes everywhere in Germany, together with German and math.

[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

We started it in the 5th year. It was mandatory to learn a foreign language and English was default. The guy who took Latin had to specificly request it. Everyone else didn't have to do anything and ended up in English lessons.

[-] almpeter@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

Same here. We could choose french, or if we did not bother to choose ended up in english... So I reckon either it changed in the early-mid 2000s or it is "Ländersache" and some have a choice option, others don't.

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