Thanks that explains a lot. I figured there must be a fair amount of exposure to English for so many pop-culture references to appear. I wouldn't have dreamed that every student is required to study English though. That's pretty impressive since a foriegn language isn't required for all American students (thought it should be). I expected Chinese and Korean to be fairly popular second languages considering the region. Hungarian is quite a shock. German makes sense. I'd expect French to be popular too.
Interestingly, I was talking to a young acquantice of mine, a college student who is also studying Japanese at the Japanese-American Institute. She told me that the high school she went to offered classes in Japanese and Chinese, as well as the usual French, Spanish, German and Latin. That surprised me. Maybe times have changed. I don't know. When I was in high school (we're talking mid to late 70's), French and Spanish were generally offered, and if you were lucky German and Latin as well. And mind you, I went to high school in a large city! And a second language wasn't required till I got into college. That's where I studied German. (FYI: I'm self taught - badly - in Latin. And I did take a course in Yiddish as well. Oy!)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2005-05-02 01:50 pm (UTC)Interestingly, I was talking to a young acquantice of mine, a college student who is also studying Japanese at the Japanese-American Institute. She told me that the high school she went to offered classes in Japanese and Chinese, as well as the usual French, Spanish, German and Latin. That surprised me. Maybe times have changed. I don't know. When I was in high school (we're talking mid to late 70's), French and Spanish were generally offered, and if you were lucky German and Latin as well. And mind you, I went to high school in a large city! And a second language wasn't required till I got into college. That's where I studied German. (FYI: I'm self taught - badly - in Latin. And I did take a course in Yiddish as well. Oy!)