Germany at a secondary school, grades 5–13:

• from grade 5: Latin (at least 6 years)
• from grade 7: English (at least 4 years)
• from grade 9: French or Ancient Greek (optional)
• from grade 11: Spanish or Italian or Hebrew (optional)

That was about 20 years ago and learning Latin, let alone Ancient Greek, had become the exception even then.

Netherlands, it depends on the level and where you live:

• everyone: Dutch and English, and another language for 2 years
• higher¹ education: French and German, drop one or both after 3 years, keeping the other for another 1 or 2 years
• for kids that are still bored: +Latin, Greek, or Spanish as typical choices (depends what your regional school offers)
• in the province of Frysia, Frysian is mandatory
• in the overseas territories, it can be different again. Not all of them speak Dutch primarily, some don’t follow the Dutch education system. I tried looking it up but couldn’t easily find how it works in those regions (which may be a “country within the kingdom” or a “special municipality”, depending on the island)
• the existence of sign language did not come up, that I recall. So far as I can find, it’s only offered on schools specifically for kids that have some level of hearing disability

¹ “higher” is the term that is officially used. I find it a bit derogatory. Having done some of basically every education level, each one has strengths and it’s not like everyone from the “highest” one would be able to get a diploma on the “lowest” one. They’re just different. Idk what word is commonly understood for this

I grew up in Hungary and Germany, and lived most of my early adulthood in Hungary. Later in life I moved to Québec, where I reside now.

In Germany, I had English starting grade five.

In Hungary, Russian was mandatory until 1989. After '89 it was elective between Russian, German, English or, in some schools, French. I opted for German starting grade 6 at a German ethnicity school, but felt like it was a mistake, since I was already native level, but the (non-native) teachers kept trying to one-up me in their broken knowledge of the language. Starting grade eight I’ve transferred to a school that had Russian only, but since I had no prior knowledge of it, but already spoke German and English, I was exempted from it. In high school I’ve opted for English.

My kids go to French language schools in Montréal and have English as a foreign language. We speak English at home. Almost ten years in and I still don’t speak French. My kids don’t speak either Hungarian or German.

Just like the other Canadian poster’s daughter in this thread stated, my wife learned near native level French, even as a non-Québecois, simply on the premise of Canada supposedly being a bilingual country. This seems to hold a lot of truth in Ontario, Montréal and New Brunswick, but outside of these provinces and cities, it seems to be much more mono-lingual in practice. Montréal is truly wild though. People very often speak three or more languages here.

i am in the u.s. my high school (~ 40 years ago) offered spanish, french, german, and swedish. the district had asl classes but that was outside of school and open to the community. juniors and seniors could take classes at a nearby college, which opened up other language choices.

korea, mostly english but we also have basic chinese or japanese classes for a year or two

In Australia I had Indonesian.

India - local language, English and Hindi

(Language is a controversial issue in India, and the present situation is more a political compromise than what’s most useful, with many rules and exceptions, and some states / schools simply ignoring the whole compromise altogether.)

I’m in Australia, we had French or Japanese. I took Japanese.

I’m Canadian, so French. I did it for six years and I learned more than I thought, but I still don’t really speak French.

In australia it was french in primary and high school.

West coast of Canada and in my daughters high school they have French, Spanish, and Hul’q’umi’num, which is the local First Nations language. Which I think is pretty freaking cool. Shes taking French though, since as she says, we are a bilingual country.

I lived overseas growing up so my choices were french, Spanish, and Arabic. I could have been fluent in Arabic! But nooooo, I took spanish. Think I speak spanish at all?

USA, too—Spanish and French.

If we’d had a third language it probably would have been Chinese instead of German—the cultural influence of German was minimal in the part of California where I grew up.

I’m in australia, and moved around a bit while i was young, I had lessons

in primary schools in:

english, german, japanese, indonesian, sign language, japanese again

in high schools:

english, japanese, french, german, and french again

US, English and Spanish. But we had the option, schedule permitting, to go to one of the other highschools in town to take Latin, German, French, or ASL. One friend took ASL, the rest of us took Spanish. I still speak it every day.

US; ASL, French, German, Spanish, and Japanese (which appears to have been replaced with Korean)

I took two years of German, and one each of French and Spanish. I knew that without someone to practice with, I was going to forget the advanced stuff anyway, so opted for basic familiarity of three.