Chinese, French, Japanese...I think most picked French (I did) and chose it cuz it was prob the most easy one, chill class, teacher came in with French pastry for use every 2 weeks.
They’ve got very straight forward etymological rules as well for how words are built. I love that the word for glove translates literally to hand shoe.
Japanese ranks as 3rd hardest language to learn in most poles. You won't be short of content to learn it because Japan is the flavor atm.
If you like building block languages check out Finnish. They have various crossovers to Japanese.
When learning a language, grammar is the easier part. Vocabulary and nuance are the hard ones, no way Japanese could be easier than French for an English speaker. No way.
Grammar rules are a lot more complicated in some languages than others. I find Japanese grammar quite straight forward compared to English grammar for example.
We all did mandatory Japanese in Year 7, & then French in Year 8. Our school offered French as an elective subject in Years 9–10, but most of the people who picked it did so in order to go on a trip to New Caledonia.
Years after highschool, while on a Contiki tour of Europe I found the following phrase from my one year of French to be sufficient enough:
***Bonjour. Je suis Australien. Je suis désolé. Parlez-vous anglais?***
*(Hello. I am Australian. I am sorry. Do you speak English?)*
I took some French classes before taking a six week trip to France. In the end, the phrase I used most often was
Je ne parlez pas francais. Parlez-vous anglais?
Vietnamese and Italian.
You could only choose Vietnamese if you were actually Vietnamese so everyone else did Italian. In Year 11, they offered French for the first time but since it was a SACE subject barely anyone took it that late in high school.
The Vietnamese class was done at a level that required a foundation and knowledge of Vietnamese from birth/childhood. There was no Intro to Vietnamese in those classes. We have a significantly large Catholic Vietnamese community, which is why they were catered to.
The Vietnamese students could choose Italian if they wanted to, but I don't recall anyone ever choosing it.
In NSW HSC there are three levels of language (not all languages offer all three levels)
- Beginners
- Continuers
- Background speakers (rebranded to (insert language here) and literature)
The last one essentially requires you to be a background speaker as the starting point is really high
What language is entirely dependant on what teachers the school can get. There is no set language that needs to be taught. Both through primary school and high school
I did Italian. Sister did Italian and 1 year of French. My cousins at the same school are now doing Japanese.
In primary school I did one year of Indonesian because they could get another Italian teacher.
Primary school only offered Italian. High school had mandatory Indonesian then from year 10 you could switch to Japanese, which I chose to get out of Indonesian. None of the teachers were native speakers or possessed any degree of fluency.
Yeah this was a huge problem for me too. Got back into Japanese recently in my late 30s and it's been much better learning with a native speaker.
In high school we mainly watched her ballroom dancing championship videos instead of learning the Language lol.
Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, French, German, Italian.
I chose Cantonese because nobody bothered to ask if i could already speak Cantonese so it was an easy band 6.
I'm half German, half Chinese. I don't think i look very Chinese, but if they looked at my full name it kinda gives it away.
Japanese, not sure why I picked it. Poorly taught, functionally useless.
Since then, I studied Indonesian at university. Learning Indonesian changed my life for the better in many ways. It helped me redirect my career, it's been instrumental in making lifelong friendships and amazing experiences that I will remember for the rest of my life. I travel there at least once a year (except during COVID).
It is also an exceptionally easy language to learn. No spelling, plurals, tenses, or genders!
I wish it was emphasised more in Australian schools - especially in Western Australia.
Same, except I learnt Japanese in primary so just stuck with it. We used to joke those 2 languages were part of the syllabus due to hangover from WWII - know thy enemy! 😆
Indonesian and French for year 7. Then one of the two year 8 onwards.
I can’t really remember that far back if you picked which one you wanted to continue with or if you had it chosen for you, but I did Indonesian. I don’t remember wanting to do it though.
Japanese, German, French and Italian. Did Japanese ‘til year 10 because there was potential for a school excursion to Japan for the students. When that didn’t eventuate, switched to a non-language course.
Was forced to do German for one term because they had just brought it in. It only went for one term then they got rid of it and replaced it with Japenese and made it optional
Spanish, French and German. I did Spanish and French, but no one did them past yr 10.
French came in handy when we went to France last year, I managed to bungle my way through 3 (veeeeery) simple conversations with cerks in a couple of stores. Honestly, I learned more talking to workers at Disneyland Paris than I did at school lol
Spanish is close enough to Italian that I could communicate semi-okay with my boss 3 jobs ago, his family were all Italians. They knew it too, they'd correct it to the Italian if they noticed lol
Japanese, Greek, Italian, I chose Italian because I had done it through primary school and my parents made me. Italian was the most popular, but most students dropped it after year 8
French, japanese and chinese. French and japanese both had to be done for a semester in year 7 because they wanted mewbies to cycle through most of the optional subjects before choosing them throughout the rest of highschool, but chinese wasn't mandatory for whatever reason. Absolutely no idea how many students chose what. Indonesian was the only lote subject in primary school and everyone did that from grade 3-6.
Back in HS in the mid to late 80's we had complusory languages for 2 years (7 & 8). 6 months on each language. French, German, Japanese and for some odd reason Russian. When electives choices rolled around the only language on offer was French. It was probably the smallest class in the school.
German and Chinese. We had to do both in year 7 and 8 but they were optional after that so the numbers dropped very quickly. When I started Indonesian was available for the higher years but then the teacher left
Greek and Italian- I chose Greek because that’s my background (I was going to Greek school on the weekend). Four of us were in the “advanced” group- we sat at a seperate table up the back, were given different work sheets and were pretty much left to ourselves (the work was quite easy so didn’t take us long to finish- we’d spend the rest of the session talking quietly/working on something else).
I think it was an even split- my school was made up of mostly children of Greek/Italian immigrants anyway.
Japanese, French and German at one high school. In year 8 our class was assigned one of the 3, and my class got Japanese.
Japanese and Italian at the other high school. By the time I got there it was an elective in year 9 and above, so I chose Japanese for 2 years. Only 4 of us were in the Japanese class, and there were 7 in the Italian class.
I did French and Chinese. I still use both. French coz it helps with shopping there. I think they’re still available as are German and Indonesian. My best friend is a German teacher and reckons German is the best. Me personally I reckon Spanish or Chinese has more use these days!
I’ve tried my hand at Japanese, German and Spanish post school as an adult. I’m probably really only decent at Japanese (I ended up moving there for a few years before moving home) and bad at everything else!
French and Japanese (the school offers Mandarin now too, but didn't when I was there). I did both up to yr 9 and French to yr 12. I was never going to speak Japanese well enough for it to be useful, but my French was good enough for travel.
At my small Catholic High School in 1991 I chose Japanese as it was going to be the next big thing. When I moved schools in 1992, it was German and wasn’t interested.
I was born in Russia. in yr 4 (10 y.o.) we were to pick either English or German. i picked German coz the textbooks were brand-new n of a glossy bright yellow colour, opposed to very old boring English textbooks. as i got home, mom made me to change it for English the very next day. back then i didn't know i was abt to migrate to Australia n stay here for the rest of my life. 🙂
in a high school we were offered to study Korean language n i had two weeks of Japanese as well.
French German Latin Japanese.
I would have picked Latin but they were not continuing it so it was a pointless if enjoyable foray.
We had to pick by end of term 3 and did Japanese in term 4 so I don't think it got a fair shake.
My dumb arse picked German because I didn't like that French had gendered nouns.
Unfortunately I learned the next year that for the sake of previewing German in year 7 they'd given us an easy version and in fact German has three genders 😭
Italian and Japanese. 90 kids did Italian, 60 did Japanese. I chose Italian bc it was way easier. A big chunk of the student who chose Japanese were weebs or at least casual anime fans. Nobody spoke Italian natively and only one dude spoke Japanese, so there wasn't a massive population of people learning their native language for easy marks.
I did Japanese because to me at the time, Italian seemed boring and was the only other choice. I have Italian family members (by marriage) and didn’t want to have to talk to all my nonnas in broken Italian every time I saw them.
It was only Indonesian for a long time, and then they randomly hired a French teacher. French was better - we'd watch old movies, eat pastries, and went on a trip to a French restaurant. The Indonesian class was very much a bludge lesson though. My abiding memory of it is handing over my book to two boys to make paper aeroplanes out of because we just did no work at all.
When I started high school, Japanese and French were available, but because students overwhelmingly chose Japanese, French was stopped by the time I was in year 9.
French and German. I did both along with informal Latin. My mum was a teacher back when Latin was still taught and I was a pretentious history nerd who probably didn't get beat up as much as I should've.
Turkish, Arabic and Italian in primary (did Turkish as am Turkish background), then Japanese, French, Italian or Arabic in high school, chose Italian. Had a lot of Italian friends so thought why not. Plus Italian, French, Spanish, they’re kinda like cousins I think
At my small country school (kinder to year 10, only a few hundred students for the entire school) we were taught Japanese til year 8. In years 9 and 10 we were able to choose our electives. I don’t remember a language specifically being an option. What you could do though was choose ‘independent learning’ and learn a language on your own. This is what I said I was doing but realistically I was sat in the corner with an iPad watching stuff on 123movies
Indonesian in primary.
No language offered from 7-8then French came in 9-10 as an elective. Didnt run it for the HSC. I did it in year 9/10, only about 9 people in the class. (cohort of 60)
The years below me i think do french from year 7 nowadays. But wasnt there when i was then.
Italian, French and Japanese. I chose Italian, because that's my family heritage but I never knew how to speak much of it.
The class sizes seemed roughly equal. The Japanese teacher ended up going on maternity leave at the end of Year 7 and they never replaced her. I think they made a second French class and anyone who was doing Japanese did French instead for Year 8.
French and Mandarin
Both were compulsory for Year 7 and 8s. Being from a Chinese background who had been doing Mandarin since my childhood I eventually chose Mandarin over French in Year 9 before dropping it all together after Year 10 (I didn't want to do it for VCE).
Honestly not sure which had more students since most kids eventually dropped LOTE when it was no longer compulsory. Maybe about even.
In Primary School, it was Greek and Mandarin due the school having a high population of students with Greek and Chinese backgrounds. I also chose Mandarin. Wish I did Greek cause that would be cooler/interesting since I was already doing Mandarin at Chinese school anyways. Look, I was 5 when I chose the language and it was an obvious choice to choose the language of your background.
The proportion was basically split according the cultural background. Greek kids did Greek and Chinese kids did Mandarin. Everyone else just chose whatever. Both Greek and Mandarin had advanced classes for the kids who already were studying it outside of school (pretty much every Greek or Chinese kid).
Seems like a common triage, but we had Chinese Japanese and French. I chose French solely because I was lazy in first year and didn't want to learn a new alphabet, and then just stuck with it ig. Literally no one chose Chinese. I think they only had like less than half a cohort of kids who did it
Japanese and French. And I didn’t do either because both weren’t languages I thought would be useful in my everyday life. And yep at 26 years old I’ve never needed to know French or Japanese. ASL though, that is something I would’ve appreciated being taught in primary or high school.
We had mandatory Indonesian and Italian at our primary school. Languages were an elective in high school and the options were Italian, Indonesian and French.
Macedonia (which was only taken by the kids of Macedonia immigrants who spoke it at home fluently), Italian (which everyone else took) and Indonesian (seriously no one ever picked it) They only ran it when they had an overflow for Italian. They made people pick between joining the Macedonian class or doing Indonesia. They stopped offering Indonesian and soon stopped offering Macedonian when the population of Macedonia students declined.
My primary school had compulsory Japanese in years 6 & 7. You could choose a few elective subjects in secondary school but I never chose a language one. Japanese was definitely available as my sister took it, and there was possibly Italian too.
Latin, German, French and Indonesian. Doing them was compulsory in years 7 and 8. We did each for 6 months. I can still remember a few phrases from Latin and I'm old.
French and German. The French teacher was an extremely attractive young lady and the German teacher was a guy in his mid-forties. It was about a 60-40 breakdown to the French of which I was a member.
German in primary and secondary. Most people in my secondary school came from a primary that did Italian, so I was a superstar in that class and had enough reinforcement in the basics that I don't need to translate simple stuff to understand the meaning.
Kept it up until now and can speak, write and read a decent amount.
Italian in primary school. French, German or Japanese in high school. I chose German mainly because I have a Germanish background (5th gen born in Australia on my dads side)
I finished high school in Sydney 30 years ago.
Options were French, German & Japanese.
Didn’t have a teacher that was fluent in any of them & as far as I remember, if you wanted to do one of them for Year 11 & 12 you had to do it outside our school.
Did all three between year 7 & 10, don’t remember getting a choice.
Did French and Japanese, chose to do more Japanese. I liked the grammatical structures better, and was generally interested in the food and culture. I think it was roughly 2/3 French to 1/3 Japanese.
French, Japanese, Chinese and Greek.
I ended up doing French and Japanese because I rotated through those classes in year 7 because they were assigned to my class, and I liked both enough to not try out Chinese in my later school years. And I didn't pick Greek because I studied it in primary school already and wanted to learn something new.
Japanese or French. No one did French and almost everyone took no notice of Japanese - which was supposed to be the next big thing, at the time. It wasn't.
Indonesian. And it was compulsory in year 7 and 8. Japanese was compulsory in year 9.
Dropped it all in year 10. Only thing I remember is that Indonesian is Bahasa Indonesia.
In Year 7 (early 1990s), we had to do two languages - French for Terms 1 and 2, Japanese for Terms 3 and 4.
No wonder why interests in a language in Year 8 electives for languages were very low. I wanted to continue with French. Never studied any LOTE since Year 7.
French, German and Latin.
And no, I’m not 80. But it was one of the last schools to teach Latin I think. I’m 54.
Quite a few kids did German and French. I was one of the odd 30 or so who did Latin for four years. I actually really enjoyed it and it gives good insight into other languages that are derived from it.
Although to be honest I wanted to do Italian and it wasn’t offered so Latin was the next best thing.
German and Indonesian, 1 semester of each for year 7 and 8. I chose German in year 9 as I did it in primary school too.
I only remember one phrase "nein das ist mein hamburger!"
You know, the important things 🤷♀️
Small town. We had a relief teacher in grade 5(?) while our teacher went on holiday, and she taught us some swedish. And in grade 7 we got to learn indonesian. They were all compulsory. Nothing else was offered.
German in primary school and Indonesian in secondary. I didn’t have a choice and dropped Indonesian as early as I could. I would have continued to learn German if I had the opportunity to though.
They called it LOTE, it lasted a year and there weren't any options. All it was was Spanish and Spanish culture. It was so bad that they replaced it with Aboriginal studies the next year which could've been kept as LOTE but it wasn't for some reason.
We had to take two languages for the first three years of HS, options were: French, Japanese, Spanish, Mandarin, German and Latin. I chose French and Japanese.
Went to a small school in a rural remote country town so there weren’t any language options. When I went to boarding school for my last few years of HS I was so far behind in language skills I was unable to join the French, Italian or Mandarin classes available.
An ex-boyfriend studied German and my husband also did some so I have picked up tiny amounts - I couldn’t have a conversation. My mum was also born and raised in PNG, she was previously fluent in Tok Pisin but now we only use a few words/phrases as the skill has been lost.
Japanese, French, and Indonesian. I chose Japanese because it was what I'd had in primary school, although I never really learned anything from 10 years worth of Japanese classes.
None, they couldn't find anybody to teach another language so after the Japanese teacher left (*years* before I started there) there was just no language option.
Indonesian only. I don't remember much except the song we sang every class.
Ayo! Mau ke mana? Ayo! Ke Indonesia! Ayo!
Bersantai de pantai, berenang denggan kawan.
Ibu ibu dan bapak bapak, ayo!
Guru guru dan anak anak, ayo!
Bersilancar berlayar, berenang denggan kawan!
Obviously I chose it because that was an absolute banger
Why don’t schools teach Spanish? It is basically the second most important language after English, I took Italian, it is kind similar to Spanish though
In High school, German, French, Japanese and Indonesian.
I did Chinese in Primary until Year six, where I moved schools and had to do German for Year six (which I hated beyond words)
I chose Japanese at Year 7 and it had similarities with Chinese, so I loved it. Did it all the way to VCE and went to Japan on exchange in the Year 11 Summer Holidays. Certainly helped the ENTER score!
French, German, Indonesian, Mandarin Chinese, and Latin.
I did a couple of years of French as that’s what I did in primary school, but we only had to do a language up until year 9 so I dropped it in year 10 (like most people I think lol).
Latin was mostly the music kids from memory.
I did French, there was another option but I forget what it was.
My kids had German or Indonesian to choose from, then Spanish was an option for years 11 & 12.
Japanese till year 5 then from then till year 8 did one semester jap one indo then for 8 and 9 you chose one ir the other to do all year then from 10 onwards you can do neither
Korean it's the class I got put into in year 8 when we couldn't choose and I just stuck with it cause it was comfortable and we got to watch Korean movies every once in a while.
I think German was the other class, and they had it way worse with tests and things.
At our school we had to do both French and Japanese for 3 years as compulsory subjects, after that you could continue with one or both in the last two years of high school as an elective subject.
French and Japanese. But we had Chinese in earlier grades, then my school just stopped doing Chinese when I was in Grade 4. No idea why. They were all mandatory up until Grade 8 and you then you could choose.
We had the choice between Japanese and French in primary school. In high school was Japanese and German.
I think the split was fairly 50/50. I chose French then German and ironically moved to Germany later in life.
We had French. No choices. Compulsory for a term. Then we swapped to computers (the school had A singular commodore 64. Spent a term, as a class, programing it to make a circle.
my school offered japanese, chinese and french. 50% of students chose french, 35% chose japanese, and 15% chose chinese. i chose japanese because my sister did and because i thought it looked interesting.
French and German. Took French right through and studied it later right through at Alliance Française. Why? Most widely spoken and used around here world. Used it for work several times too. Would have loved to have done German too at school,but could,only choose one.
We had Italian in Primary School. No choice, just Italian.
In Secondary School, we got French or German. I chose German, and I can't remember why, but it never caught on with me.
I switched to a private school and we actually learned Walpiri for several years in preperation for our senior trip to Yuendemu. One kid got pretty fluent and was able to converse with the elders, but nobody else did.
We had a choice of Indonesian, French, and Auslan (early 00's)
I ended up choosing French, adding Italian in year 10, and keeping Auslan as an elective.
Now in my 30s, and speak French, Italian, English, and Spanish, with some Auslan thrown in.
Primary school offered no languages. High school had Indonesian only until year 10 (no one took it seriously either, was just 1 teacher for the whole school and it was just treated as a free period).
We didn’t have a LOTE class at my primary school. In High School, we had a Japanese class, but in years 7/8, you’d only do one semester a year, and do a music class in the other semester.
I did it in years 9/10 as well, thinking it would be a bludge class. I was right, but the teacher was just annoying in general (he also got fired for throwing a chair, and was originally transferred to us for throwing a desk at another school).
I grew up in nz.
Primary: Māori
High school we had a choice of German, French and Japanese. I took Japanese as figured I’m more likely to use it in life.
German and Korean. We didn't get a choice which, you got put with the one closest to what LOTE you did in primary school. I did French in primary school, so I had to do German in high school. I think classes were fairly balanced.
J'ai étudié français tous les années dans le lycée. Currently doing VCE French in Y11. My old private school also taught German and Chinese (very surprised no post here mentioned Chinese, commonly taught in Melbourne's east), and then current school also teaches German, Japanese and Indonesian.
LOTE teaching in Australia is *woeful*. Absolutely *woeful*. I’ll never get why French and Japanese are given priority over a truly global language like Spanish…
Mandatory German, Italian, and Japanese in year 8. They were **very brief** introductions to all of them (numbers, basic greetings, days of the week, etc).
I never studied any of them afterwards in high school though. I wish I did now. However, I studied French in university (and a bit of Spanish).
French, Italian, Chinese, German, Latin in order of descending enrolment numbers.
I remember that Asian languages were divided into background and non-background speakers while European languages were not.
Indonesian, Mandarin Chinese, or Spanish. I did Spanish. I guess because it's more widely spoken and I'd watched Spanish movies before. I think ideally I'd have liked to've done French but it wasn't offered. I have no idea what proportion of students did what.
Anyway jokes on me, I ended up visiting China with school but I've never been to any Spanish-speaking country lol
I chose Japanese, but had to do French in high school due to popular choice by my class back in Year 7. About the only serious use I've had for French is that it helped me learn a bit of Spanish easier. I also took German lessons via the Victorian School of Languages.
Italian was the only language. It was compulsory in Years 8 and 9. I enjoyed doing it but when electives came around in Year 10, I didn’t have space for it.
My school had compulsory second language from K-10.
When I started there the standard choices were:
- English as a Second Language
- French
- German
- Greek
- Italian
- Japanese
- Spanish
You could get special permission to do Latin, but I was only aware of one kid who did it (but there might've been more).
By the time I was leaving I was vaguely aware that the options had changed for new starters in primary.
I did German because my dad's family is German.
High school: French, German, Italian and Indonesian.
I picked Indo because the European ones are comparatively useless in Australia unless you want to travel to Europe. I loved that class and still speak some.
College 11/12: French, German, Italian and Mandarin.
I picked Mandarin for the same reason. I learned a little but it’s harder to retain.
French in primary school and French in highschool.
It was mandatory in primary school.
I did French up until year 10, it was mandatory up until year 9.
Past that, there were about 20 people in year 10 class.
I stopped after year 10 but I believe for the ATAR French class, it was about 10 people
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our hs had French, German and Indonesian.
I wanted to learn French as an elective but there weren't enough students to form a class. I was told I could move schools (I would have but my family didn't own a car and I had no other way to get to the other school) or to repeat the year in hopes that there'd be enough people then. I didn't do either but I took French lessons once I moved overseas.
our year ended up only having Indonesian as there weren't enough German students either. in their second year they travelled to Bali. my family would not have been able to afford to send me so I'm glad to have avoided that embarrassment.
Italian, French, Arabic and Greek. I chose Italian, because I had already done a very small amount of it in primary school. I probably should have chosen French, because the Italian, Arabic and Greek classes were filled with kids who had grown up hearing it as a secondary language at home and with extended family. I was at a noticeable disadvantage as the Aussie in the Italian class. There was only one class each of Arabic and Greek but multiple French and Italian ones. Later on they introduced Japanese as an option but it was only available to the younger grades.
We did Indonesian in primary school and got to choose between Indonesian and French in high school
Exactly the same here!
Chinese, French, Japanese...I think most picked French (I did) and chose it cuz it was prob the most easy one, chill class, teacher came in with French pastry for use every 2 weeks.
I think Japanese is easier, their language is like Lego, you e just got to put the blocks together correctly, it’s brilliant.
German. Very logical and consistent unlike English. For ever rule in English there is one or more exceptions. Bastard.
They’ve got very straight forward etymological rules as well for how words are built. I love that the word for glove translates literally to hand shoe.
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It's because English is built up on so many languages. It isn't very clear but it's ok not to be perfect at it.
Oh yes I get that English is built up and uses, even today, lots of words from other languages and in a way makes it better but sod to learn.
English is my native language and i can’t fathom how people learn it as a second language. shit’s tough
Japanese ranks as 3rd hardest language to learn in most poles. You won't be short of content to learn it because Japan is the flavor atm. If you like building block languages check out Finnish. They have various crossovers to Japanese.
Definitely hard to learn 3 new and different alphabets!
When learning a language, grammar is the easier part. Vocabulary and nuance are the hard ones, no way Japanese could be easier than French for an English speaker. No way.
It also plays on the art side. Kids like to draw and hiragana are pretty
Yeah Grammar
Grammar rules are a lot more complicated in some languages than others. I find Japanese grammar quite straight forward compared to English grammar for example.
French : voice notre 15 temps Chinese : 那是什么？这里没有这种东西
Something, something, conjugated verbs.
German, French and Indonesian. No idea how many took them up.
Ours too. I did German but only in lower years
We all did mandatory Japanese in Year 7, & then French in Year 8. Our school offered French as an elective subject in Years 9–10, but most of the people who picked it did so in order to go on a trip to New Caledonia. Years after highschool, while on a Contiki tour of Europe I found the following phrase from my one year of French to be sufficient enough: ***Bonjour. Je suis Australien. Je suis désolé. Parlez-vous anglais?*** *(Hello. I am Australian. I am sorry. Do you speak English?)*
I took some French classes before taking a six week trip to France. In the end, the phrase I used most often was Je ne parlez pas francais. Parlez-vous anglais?
Vietnamese and Italian. You could only choose Vietnamese if you were actually Vietnamese so everyone else did Italian. In Year 11, they offered French for the first time but since it was a SACE subject barely anyone took it that late in high school.
What was the reason only Vietnamese students could take Vietnamese? Could Vietnamese students choose Italian?
The Vietnamese class was done at a level that required a foundation and knowledge of Vietnamese from birth/childhood. There was no Intro to Vietnamese in those classes. We have a significantly large Catholic Vietnamese community, which is why they were catered to. The Vietnamese students could choose Italian if they wanted to, but I don't recall anyone ever choosing it.
In NSW HSC there are three levels of language (not all languages offer all three levels) - Beginners - Continuers - Background speakers (rebranded to (insert language here) and literature) The last one essentially requires you to be a background speaker as the starting point is really high
On r LanguageLearning I think they’d be called “heritage speakers”.
What language is entirely dependant on what teachers the school can get. There is no set language that needs to be taught. Both through primary school and high school I did Italian. Sister did Italian and 1 year of French. My cousins at the same school are now doing Japanese. In primary school I did one year of Indonesian because they could get another Italian teacher.
We had Japanese. It was only compulsory in year 8, though. So I chose not to do it beyond then.
Primary school only offered Italian. High school had mandatory Indonesian then from year 10 you could switch to Japanese, which I chose to get out of Indonesian. None of the teachers were native speakers or possessed any degree of fluency.
My Latin speaker was old enough to be a native speaker. 😂😂😂
Yeah this was a huge problem for me too. Got back into Japanese recently in my late 30s and it's been much better learning with a native speaker. In high school we mainly watched her ballroom dancing championship videos instead of learning the Language lol.
German was the only one they offered. Small town, half of German descent. Wie Geht's?
French and Indonesian. I did french for three years and remember nothing.
Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, French, German, Italian. I chose Cantonese because nobody bothered to ask if i could already speak Cantonese so it was an easy band 6. I'm half German, half Chinese. I don't think i look very Chinese, but if they looked at my full name it kinda gives it away.
Japanese, not sure why I picked it. Poorly taught, functionally useless. Since then, I studied Indonesian at university. Learning Indonesian changed my life for the better in many ways. It helped me redirect my career, it's been instrumental in making lifelong friendships and amazing experiences that I will remember for the rest of my life. I travel there at least once a year (except during COVID). It is also an exceptionally easy language to learn. No spelling, plurals, tenses, or genders! I wish it was emphasised more in Australian schools - especially in Western Australia.
There weren't any options in secondary school, but we all studied Italian in primary school.
My school, just Japanese. Did it all the way through
Arabic in primary school. French and German in high school. Have no idea of how many took up what.
Japanese, Arabic, French and Italian. I kept up with the Japanese I’d already been learning from Primary school.
German or Japanese. I chose German because we'd already been learning that since we started primary school. I think it was roughly 50/50.
Same, except I learnt Japanese in primary so just stuck with it. We used to joke those 2 languages were part of the syllabus due to hangover from WWII - know thy enemy! 😆
Learn Italian to complete the Axis!
Italian in both primary and secondary. No other languages offered.
Indonesian and French for year 7. Then one of the two year 8 onwards. I can’t really remember that far back if you picked which one you wanted to continue with or if you had it chosen for you, but I did Indonesian. I don’t remember wanting to do it though.
I really think Auslan and some native dialects should be on offer instead of random European and Asian languages
French and Indonesian. I chose French and did it for VCE.
Japanese, German, French and Italian. Did Japanese ‘til year 10 because there was potential for a school excursion to Japan for the students. When that didn’t eventuate, switched to a non-language course.
Was forced to do German for one term because they had just brought it in. It only went for one term then they got rid of it and replaced it with Japenese and made it optional
Japanese in primary, but my high school only had Chinese or German so I dropped LOTE.
1980s/90s - French. That’s it. No choice.
Country public school.....nothing was available
Spanish, French and German. I did Spanish and French, but no one did them past yr 10. French came in handy when we went to France last year, I managed to bungle my way through 3 (veeeeery) simple conversations with cerks in a couple of stores. Honestly, I learned more talking to workers at Disneyland Paris than I did at school lol Spanish is close enough to Italian that I could communicate semi-okay with my boss 3 jobs ago, his family were all Italians. They knew it too, they'd correct it to the Italian if they noticed lol
Japanese was the only option, it was compulsory in the first year of high school and I chose to continue with it after that.
Japanese, Greek, Italian, I chose Italian because I had done it through primary school and my parents made me. Italian was the most popular, but most students dropped it after year 8
Chinese, French or Japanese.
Japanese and that's it. Compulsory until year 8 or 9
French, japanese and chinese. French and japanese both had to be done for a semester in year 7 because they wanted mewbies to cycle through most of the optional subjects before choosing them throughout the rest of highschool, but chinese wasn't mandatory for whatever reason. Absolutely no idea how many students chose what. Indonesian was the only lote subject in primary school and everyone did that from grade 3-6.
Secondary school: Greek, French, Italian. Most chose Italian because of family background.
Japanese because the other two available were Mandarin and French.
Back in HS in the mid to late 80's we had complusory languages for 2 years (7 & 8). 6 months on each language. French, German, Japanese and for some odd reason Russian. When electives choices rolled around the only language on offer was French. It was probably the smallest class in the school.
Spanish and German. I chose Spanish, because proximity to Mexico.
German and Chinese. We had to do both in year 7 and 8 but they were optional after that so the numbers dropped very quickly. When I started Indonesian was available for the higher years but then the teacher left
German and Indonesian. Had to do one in Year 8, so choose the former as it was what we done had in primary school
Greek and Italian- I chose Greek because that’s my background (I was going to Greek school on the weekend). Four of us were in the “advanced” group- we sat at a seperate table up the back, were given different work sheets and were pretty much left to ourselves (the work was quite easy so didn’t take us long to finish- we’d spend the rest of the session talking quietly/working on something else). I think it was an even split- my school was made up of mostly children of Greek/Italian immigrants anyway.
Japanese, French and German at one high school. In year 8 our class was assigned one of the 3, and my class got Japanese. Japanese and Italian at the other high school. By the time I got there it was an elective in year 9 and above, so I chose Japanese for 2 years. Only 4 of us were in the Japanese class, and there were 7 in the Italian class.
I did French and Chinese. I still use both. French coz it helps with shopping there. I think they’re still available as are German and Indonesian. My best friend is a German teacher and reckons German is the best. Me personally I reckon Spanish or Chinese has more use these days! I’ve tried my hand at Japanese, German and Spanish post school as an adult. I’m probably really only decent at Japanese (I ended up moving there for a few years before moving home) and bad at everything else!
French and Japanese (the school offers Mandarin now too, but didn't when I was there). I did both up to yr 9 and French to yr 12. I was never going to speak Japanese well enough for it to be useful, but my French was good enough for travel.
At my small Catholic High School in 1991 I chose Japanese as it was going to be the next big thing. When I moved schools in 1992, it was German and wasn’t interested.
I was born in Russia. in yr 4 (10 y.o.) we were to pick either English or German. i picked German coz the textbooks were brand-new n of a glossy bright yellow colour, opposed to very old boring English textbooks. as i got home, mom made me to change it for English the very next day. back then i didn't know i was abt to migrate to Australia n stay here for the rest of my life. 🙂 in a high school we were offered to study Korean language n i had two weeks of Japanese as well.
Indonesian in primary school, then we got to choose between Indonesian and the local Indigenous language in high school
Am I the only one that is surprised at the amount of people saying Indonesian? Didn’t realise that was a big thing to learn in schools growing up.
French German Latin Japanese. I would have picked Latin but they were not continuing it so it was a pointless if enjoyable foray. We had to pick by end of term 3 and did Japanese in term 4 so I don't think it got a fair shake. My dumb arse picked German because I didn't like that French had gendered nouns. Unfortunately I learned the next year that for the sake of previewing German in year 7 they'd given us an easy version and in fact German has three genders 😭
Italian and Japanese. 90 kids did Italian, 60 did Japanese. I chose Italian bc it was way easier. A big chunk of the student who chose Japanese were weebs or at least casual anime fans. Nobody spoke Italian natively and only one dude spoke Japanese, so there wasn't a massive population of people learning their native language for easy marks.
I did Japanese because to me at the time, Italian seemed boring and was the only other choice. I have Italian family members (by marriage) and didn’t want to have to talk to all my nonnas in broken Italian every time I saw them.
It was only Indonesian for a long time, and then they randomly hired a French teacher. French was better - we'd watch old movies, eat pastries, and went on a trip to a French restaurant. The Indonesian class was very much a bludge lesson though. My abiding memory of it is handing over my book to two boys to make paper aeroplanes out of because we just did no work at all.
When I started high school, Japanese and French were available, but because students overwhelmingly chose Japanese, French was stopped by the time I was in year 9.
90s we had french and Japanese. I chose French, did it for 4 years and had a decent grasp at the time but forgotten most of it.
French and German. I did both along with informal Latin. My mum was a teacher back when Latin was still taught and I was a pretentious history nerd who probably didn't get beat up as much as I should've.
Turkish, Arabic and Italian in primary (did Turkish as am Turkish background), then Japanese, French, Italian or Arabic in high school, chose Italian. Had a lot of Italian friends so thought why not. Plus Italian, French, Spanish, they’re kinda like cousins I think
We had in the 70s English, French, Dutch, German
Indonesian and German. Chose Indonesian because I had 2 high schools to choose from and the one I chose had Indonesian
At my small country school (kinder to year 10, only a few hundred students for the entire school) we were taught Japanese til year 8. In years 9 and 10 we were able to choose our electives. I don’t remember a language specifically being an option. What you could do though was choose ‘independent learning’ and learn a language on your own. This is what I said I was doing but realistically I was sat in the corner with an iPad watching stuff on 123movies
Indonesian in primary. No language offered from 7-8then French came in 9-10 as an elective. Didnt run it for the HSC. I did it in year 9/10, only about 9 people in the class. (cohort of 60) The years below me i think do french from year 7 nowadays. But wasnt there when i was then.
1980s/90s country school it was French, German and Japanese
Chinese, French, Latin, Japanese, German and Classical Greek. Chose Chinese cus guess what, I’m Chinese lol
My school only had German. I didn't continue with it when it became optional, I'm not sure how many did.
Italian, French and Japanese. I chose Italian, because that's my family heritage but I never knew how to speak much of it. The class sizes seemed roughly equal. The Japanese teacher ended up going on maternity leave at the end of Year 7 and they never replaced her. I think they made a second French class and anyone who was doing Japanese did French instead for Year 8.
Japanese in primary school, then Japanese, French and German. I think Italian was also on offer.
German only in my first school. When I moved up the city my new school had a choice of German, French or Japanese.
French and Mandarin Both were compulsory for Year 7 and 8s. Being from a Chinese background who had been doing Mandarin since my childhood I eventually chose Mandarin over French in Year 9 before dropping it all together after Year 10 (I didn't want to do it for VCE). Honestly not sure which had more students since most kids eventually dropped LOTE when it was no longer compulsory. Maybe about even. In Primary School, it was Greek and Mandarin due the school having a high population of students with Greek and Chinese backgrounds. I also chose Mandarin. Wish I did Greek cause that would be cooler/interesting since I was already doing Mandarin at Chinese school anyways. Look, I was 5 when I chose the language and it was an obvious choice to choose the language of your background. The proportion was basically split according the cultural background. Greek kids did Greek and Chinese kids did Mandarin. Everyone else just chose whatever. Both Greek and Mandarin had advanced classes for the kids who already were studying it outside of school (pretty much every Greek or Chinese kid).
Italian… other kids got Indonesian but we just got put with whatever we done at primary school so there was no choice.
Seems like a common triage, but we had Chinese Japanese and French. I chose French solely because I was lazy in first year and didn't want to learn a new alphabet, and then just stuck with it ig. Literally no one chose Chinese. I think they only had like less than half a cohort of kids who did it
French, Italian...chose French.
Italian Greek choose Italian married a Greek
Japanese and French. And I didn’t do either because both weren’t languages I thought would be useful in my everyday life. And yep at 26 years old I’ve never needed to know French or Japanese. ASL though, that is something I would’ve appreciated being taught in primary or high school.
We had mandatory Indonesian and Italian at our primary school. Languages were an elective in high school and the options were Italian, Indonesian and French.
Macedonia (which was only taken by the kids of Macedonia immigrants who spoke it at home fluently), Italian (which everyone else took) and Indonesian (seriously no one ever picked it) They only ran it when they had an overflow for Italian. They made people pick between joining the Macedonian class or doing Indonesia. They stopped offering Indonesian and soon stopped offering Macedonian when the population of Macedonia students declined.
none, though i went to a fairly small school (graduating class of 82 people) i would have liked to learn something east asian
Indonesian and German, I did German.
German and Japanese. I did Japanese
My primary school had compulsory Japanese in years 6 & 7. You could choose a few elective subjects in secondary school but I never chose a language one. Japanese was definitely available as my sister took it, and there was possibly Italian too.
I chose French and German.
Japanese, Indonesian, French and Italian. I didn’t chose any of them haha but was forced to do Indonesian in year 8.
Latin, German, French and Indonesian. Doing them was compulsory in years 7 and 8. We did each for 6 months. I can still remember a few phrases from Latin and I'm old.
I did Italian in grade 2, and Japanese every year after. I went 13 schools and each one only offered one language, so I never got a choice.
Indonesian, frensh, spanish, italian, japanese or cantonese
French and German. The French teacher was an extremely attractive young lady and the German teacher was a guy in his mid-forties. It was about a 60-40 breakdown to the French of which I was a member.
German in primary and secondary. Most people in my secondary school came from a primary that did Italian, so I was a superstar in that class and had enough reinforcement in the basics that I don't need to translate simple stuff to understand the meaning. Kept it up until now and can speak, write and read a decent amount.
There was no choice at our high school, it was Indonesian.
Italian in primary school. French, German or Japanese in high school. I chose German mainly because I have a Germanish background (5th gen born in Australia on my dads side)
I chose my high school so I could learn Japanese because I wanted to learn to read a written language which didn't use the latin alphabet.
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I finished high school in Sydney 30 years ago. Options were French, German & Japanese. Didn’t have a teacher that was fluent in any of them & as far as I remember, if you wanted to do one of them for Year 11 & 12 you had to do it outside our school. Did all three between year 7 & 10, don’t remember getting a choice.
mandarin, japanese, italian, french, spanish
Did French and Japanese, chose to do more Japanese. I liked the grammatical structures better, and was generally interested in the food and culture. I think it was roughly 2/3 French to 1/3 Japanese.
French, Japanese, Chinese and Greek. I ended up doing French and Japanese because I rotated through those classes in year 7 because they were assigned to my class, and I liked both enough to not try out Chinese in my later school years. And I didn't pick Greek because I studied it in primary school already and wanted to learn something new.
Public school in a low income area early/mid 2000s. No languages on offer.
German and Italian in primary school, japanese in high school
Japanese or French. No one did French and almost everyone took no notice of Japanese - which was supposed to be the next big thing, at the time. It wasn't.
German and Indonesian
Indonesian. And it was compulsory in year 7 and 8. Japanese was compulsory in year 9. Dropped it all in year 10. Only thing I remember is that Indonesian is Bahasa Indonesia.
Japanese, or if you wanted to choose in Senior, it was either Chinese or Japanese. Did 6 years of Japanese and can remember a bit of it…
In Year 7 (early 1990s), we had to do two languages - French for Terms 1 and 2, Japanese for Terms 3 and 4. No wonder why interests in a language in Year 8 electives for languages were very low. I wanted to continue with French. Never studied any LOTE since Year 7.
Korean or German, seemed to be about half of my year level did each. I did Korean because it’s what we did in primary school
Italians and french
French, German and Latin. And no, I’m not 80. But it was one of the last schools to teach Latin I think. I’m 54. Quite a few kids did German and French. I was one of the odd 30 or so who did Latin for four years. I actually really enjoyed it and it gives good insight into other languages that are derived from it. Although to be honest I wanted to do Italian and it wasn’t offered so Latin was the next best thing.
German and Indonesian, 1 semester of each for year 7 and 8. I chose German in year 9 as I did it in primary school too. I only remember one phrase "nein das ist mein hamburger!" You know, the important things 🤷♀️
Small town. We had a relief teacher in grade 5(?) while our teacher went on holiday, and she taught us some swedish. And in grade 7 we got to learn indonesian. They were all compulsory. Nothing else was offered.
German in primary school and Indonesian in secondary. I didn’t have a choice and dropped Indonesian as early as I could. I would have continued to learn German if I had the opportunity to though.
They called it LOTE, it lasted a year and there weren't any options. All it was was Spanish and Spanish culture. It was so bad that they replaced it with Aboriginal studies the next year which could've been kept as LOTE but it wasn't for some reason.
We had to take two languages for the first three years of HS, options were: French, Japanese, Spanish, Mandarin, German and Latin. I chose French and Japanese.
French, Chinese, Japanese. I chose French. Glad I did. I speak quite well now.
French in high school, not by choice
German in primary school and Indonesian in high school. No options - only those.
Japanese
Italian in primary school and in high school we had French, Japanese and Italian. All i remember is Japanese was super popular
Italian, and i chose italian
Went to a small school in a rural remote country town so there weren’t any language options. When I went to boarding school for my last few years of HS I was so far behind in language skills I was unable to join the French, Italian or Mandarin classes available. An ex-boyfriend studied German and my husband also did some so I have picked up tiny amounts - I couldn’t have a conversation. My mum was also born and raised in PNG, she was previously fluent in Tok Pisin but now we only use a few words/phrases as the skill has been lost.
Japanese, French, and Indonesian. I chose Japanese because it was what I'd had in primary school, although I never really learned anything from 10 years worth of Japanese classes.
None, they couldn't find anybody to teach another language so after the Japanese teacher left (*years* before I started there) there was just no language option.
Chinese, Italian, Greek (modern/class), French. I did Italian because I'm simply obssessed with Italian culture.
Indonesian only. I don't remember much except the song we sang every class. Ayo! Mau ke mana? Ayo! Ke Indonesia! Ayo! Bersantai de pantai, berenang denggan kawan. Ibu ibu dan bapak bapak, ayo! Guru guru dan anak anak, ayo! Bersilancar berlayar, berenang denggan kawan! Obviously I chose it because that was an absolute banger
Why don’t schools teach Spanish? It is basically the second most important language after English, I took Italian, it is kind similar to Spanish though
I had German, French, Italian and Japanese. And we did one each year for high school
We learned Indonesian all through primary school but there weren't any language classes in high school unfortunately.
Bahasa Indonesia.
This is the way you can tell the difference between public / private schools lol
In High school, German, French, Japanese and Indonesian. I did Chinese in Primary until Year six, where I moved schools and had to do German for Year six (which I hated beyond words) I chose Japanese at Year 7 and it had similarities with Chinese, so I loved it. Did it all the way to VCE and went to Japan on exchange in the Year 11 Summer Holidays. Certainly helped the ENTER score!
Did secondary school 1978-1982, a technical school. No other language taught whatsoever - elective or mandatory.
French, German, Indonesian, Mandarin Chinese, and Latin. I did a couple of years of French as that’s what I did in primary school, but we only had to do a language up until year 9 so I dropped it in year 10 (like most people I think lol). Latin was mostly the music kids from memory.
I did French, there was another option but I forget what it was. My kids had German or Indonesian to choose from, then Spanish was an option for years 11 & 12.
German and French. I chose German, I don’t remember why.
Japanese till year 5 then from then till year 8 did one semester jap one indo then for 8 and 9 you chose one ir the other to do all year then from 10 onwards you can do neither
Indonesian in primary school, then Italian in high school mandatory until year 10. Year 11 and 12 you didn’t have to do them
Korean it's the class I got put into in year 8 when we couldn't choose and I just stuck with it cause it was comfortable and we got to watch Korean movies every once in a while. I think German was the other class, and they had it way worse with tests and things.
At our school we had to do both French and Japanese for 3 years as compulsory subjects, after that you could continue with one or both in the last two years of high school as an elective subject.
We had a little of Indonesian in primary school and then I chose Japanese in secondary school, the other hs options are French and italian
With my high school there was German and Indonesian. It was random I got put into German
I was only taught Italian throughout primary school ( in Red Cliffs, Victoria) and then went to high school in Adelaide and was taught Japanese.
French and Japanese. But we had Chinese in earlier grades, then my school just stopped doing Chinese when I was in Grade 4. No idea why. They were all mandatory up until Grade 8 and you then you could choose.
We had the choice between Japanese and French in primary school. In high school was Japanese and German. I think the split was fairly 50/50. I chose French then German and ironically moved to Germany later in life.
We had French. No choices. Compulsory for a term. Then we swapped to computers (the school had A singular commodore 64. Spent a term, as a class, programing it to make a circle.
my school offered japanese, chinese and french. 50% of students chose french, 35% chose japanese, and 15% chose chinese. i chose japanese because my sister did and because i thought it looked interesting.
French and German. Took French right through and studied it later right through at Alliance Française. Why? Most widely spoken and used around here world. Used it for work several times too. Would have loved to have done German too at school,but could,only choose one.
We had Italian in Primary School. No choice, just Italian. In Secondary School, we got French or German. I chose German, and I can't remember why, but it never caught on with me. I switched to a private school and we actually learned Walpiri for several years in preperation for our senior trip to Yuendemu. One kid got pretty fluent and was able to converse with the elders, but nobody else did.
We had a choice of Indonesian, French, and Auslan (early 00's) I ended up choosing French, adding Italian in year 10, and keeping Auslan as an elective. Now in my 30s, and speak French, Italian, English, and Spanish, with some Auslan thrown in.
Primary school offered no languages. High school had Indonesian only until year 10 (no one took it seriously either, was just 1 teacher for the whole school and it was just treated as a free period).
forced to do French, did not enjoy it. .....
We didn’t have a LOTE class at my primary school. In High School, we had a Japanese class, but in years 7/8, you’d only do one semester a year, and do a music class in the other semester. I did it in years 9/10 as well, thinking it would be a bludge class. I was right, but the teacher was just annoying in general (he also got fired for throwing a chair, and was originally transferred to us for throwing a desk at another school).
I grew up in nz. Primary: Māori High school we had a choice of German, French and Japanese. I took Japanese as figured I’m more likely to use it in life.
German and Korean. We didn't get a choice which, you got put with the one closest to what LOTE you did in primary school. I did French in primary school, so I had to do German in high school. I think classes were fairly balanced.
French and Japanese from grades 5 - 7. I wanted to continue French in high school, but we didn’t have enough for a class 😢
J'ai étudié français tous les années dans le lycée. Currently doing VCE French in Y11. My old private school also taught German and Chinese (very surprised no post here mentioned Chinese, commonly taught in Melbourne's east), and then current school also teaches German, Japanese and Indonesian.
LOTE teaching in Australia is *woeful*. Absolutely *woeful*. I’ll never get why French and Japanese are given priority over a truly global language like Spanish…
Mandatory German, Italian, and Japanese in year 8. They were **very brief** introductions to all of them (numbers, basic greetings, days of the week, etc). I never studied any of them afterwards in high school though. I wish I did now. However, I studied French in university (and a bit of Spanish).
German, French and Japanese
French, Italian, Chinese, German, Latin in order of descending enrolment numbers. I remember that Asian languages were divided into background and non-background speakers while European languages were not.
Indonesian, Mandarin Chinese, or Spanish. I did Spanish. I guess because it's more widely spoken and I'd watched Spanish movies before. I think ideally I'd have liked to've done French but it wasn't offered. I have no idea what proportion of students did what. Anyway jokes on me, I ended up visiting China with school but I've never been to any Spanish-speaking country lol
Indonesian and indonesian. Interesting language!
None. Fantastic education at Beenleigh high
I chose Japanese, but had to do French in high school due to popular choice by my class back in Year 7. About the only serious use I've had for French is that it helped me learn a bit of Spanish easier. I also took German lessons via the Victorian School of Languages.
Italian was the only language. It was compulsory in Years 8 and 9. I enjoyed doing it but when electives came around in Year 10, I didn’t have space for it.
Vietnamese and Greek in primary school, nothing in high school.
We had Italian or Vietnamese I did Italian because it was what I'd done in primary school 😊
My school had compulsory second language from K-10. When I started there the standard choices were: - English as a Second Language - French - German - Greek - Italian - Japanese - Spanish You could get special permission to do Latin, but I was only aware of one kid who did it (but there might've been more). By the time I was leaving I was vaguely aware that the options had changed for new starters in primary. I did German because my dad's family is German.
It was mandatory for us the do Chinese from primary school up to year 9. We go no choice about what language or if we wanted to do it or not.
there are schools teaching more than one lote?
My high school had a languages program, so more choices than most. From memory it was Chinese (Mandarin), Indonesia, Italian, German, and French.
High school: French, German, Italian and Indonesian. I picked Indo because the European ones are comparatively useless in Australia unless you want to travel to Europe. I loved that class and still speak some. College 11/12: French, German, Italian and Mandarin. I picked Mandarin for the same reason. I learned a little but it’s harder to retain.
French in primary school and French in highschool. It was mandatory in primary school. I did French up until year 10, it was mandatory up until year 9. Past that, there were about 20 people in year 10 class. I stopped after year 10 but I believe for the ATAR French class, it was about 10 people
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our hs had French, German and Indonesian. I wanted to learn French as an elective but there weren't enough students to form a class. I was told I could move schools (I would have but my family didn't own a car and I had no other way to get to the other school) or to repeat the year in hopes that there'd be enough people then. I didn't do either but I took French lessons once I moved overseas. our year ended up only having Indonesian as there weren't enough German students either. in their second year they travelled to Bali. my family would not have been able to afford to send me so I'm glad to have avoided that embarrassment.
My school offered French, German, Indonesian and Japanese, but you didn’t get to choose, it was assigned.
Italian, French, Arabic and Greek. I chose Italian, because I had already done a very small amount of it in primary school. I probably should have chosen French, because the Italian, Arabic and Greek classes were filled with kids who had grown up hearing it as a secondary language at home and with extended family. I was at a noticeable disadvantage as the Aussie in the Italian class. There was only one class each of Arabic and Greek but multiple French and Italian ones. Later on they introduced Japanese as an option but it was only available to the younger grades.
Indonesian in primary school, then French and Japanese in high school. I loved French and wish I’d kept going with it. I found Japanese too hard.
French, German and Indonesian. I learned French and German. Why? Because I could.