Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system?
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 9 months ago
Umm, gonna answer as an American, for clarity: many schools across the US have language classes of all sorts. Every niece/nephew I know across multiple states could study French, Spanish, Latin, Chinese, Italian, etc, etc. Chinese is one of many (typically Mandarin).
It’s very common in US public schools, and has increased significantly over the last 50 years.
My school offered (from most popular to least popular):
I think my child’s high school offers the same, although I don’t know the relative popularities. I’m confident Spanish is still most popular, and judging by the number of posters around the school from German classes trying to convince kids to take German, I’m thinking German is still not very popular.
We only had Spanish for 8th grade and up. When I was in 7th they had high school French but cut it for budget before I got there.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 9 months ago
What about Russian? Serious question; around here it was a relatively popular choice (we share a border with Russia) one or two decades ago, but I suspect this might have changed recently.