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Do you think studying another language should be compulsory in schools? In my school, it was compulsory up until year 11, after year 11 you could choose to carry it on or to stop taking it. But, is it actually worth being a compulsory subject, or should it be by choice?
A survey showed that most brits that go on holiday dont bother learning the language and with most tourist locations speaking english, people argue it's not a necessary subject like English and maths.
It already is in my school, you have to do a short course in Welsh even if you don't pick it as a GCSE I think its a terrible idea not many people want to know a second language
Last edited: 03-Jul-2009 (23:54) We had the option at year 9, it is not compulsory atm to take for GCSE I think it should be compulsory really because a language is such a good skill and we don't do enough to teach people other languages we just expect them to learn ours
i think its good to learn and second language and be made to at school, people in the uk are too ignorant to other people cultures and language. when i go to other countries i alays like to learn a bit of the language
We had the option at year 9 I think it should be compulsory really because a language is such a good skill and we don't do enough to teach people other languages we just expect them to learn ours
When I went on an exchange to Spain, all of the students spoke some English, and many of them were totally fluent in English, and their ages ranged from 14 plus It just showed me how their school system placed a higher importance on learning languages, even though I studied Spanish for over 6 years, i'm no were near fluent and can only speak basic sentences
It already is in my school, you have to do a short course in Welsh even if you don't pick it as a GCSE I think its a terrible idea not many people want to know a second language
urgh yeah welsh = worst language ever
french for me was compulsory year 7-9 welsh compulsory year 1-11 german was a matter of choice well, if you were good at french, welsh and english in year 7 you got the choice to do german but if you said no/didn't get offered you would never get the opportunity again. hardly any people got offered too
