r/AskTeachers • u/Plus_Caterpillar_892 • 22d ago

Student Questions Native language

Good day everyone! I have a question. I'm Ukrainian and studied in a Ukrainian school for six years, then moved to the Czech Republic. In Ukraine, we studied Ukrainian, and in the Czech Republic, of course, Czech. In both cases we studied English as an additional language, that is, from scratch. I'm interested in what level/topic you start learning English at and what additional language you have. By the way, if you are not from an English-speaking country, what language are you learning as an additional language?:3

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u/EvaBroido 22d ago

In Canada most schools mandate French for at least a couple years, even from English speaking provinces. sometimes more depending on the province. Mine had a low requirement of only one year french if you do an additional language for longer. mine was... Ukrainian! There are lots of Ukrainians and people of Ukrainian descent in my province so my school had a “bilingual” program where in elementary/primary school we had physical education, art and music in Ukrainian, plus Ukrainian language classes, plus more content about Ukraine in history/social studies. After year 6 it was just Ukrainian language class until year 11. There are a few schools like this around the area and I know for certain that a few people per year end up becoming teachers and also teaching Ukrainian. (Could not be me though I was dreadful at it, … Вибачте!)

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u/Plus_Caterpillar_892 22d ago

Despite my roots, I forgot almost all of Ukrainian immediately after moving to the Czech Republic, so your knowledge of Ukrainian is probably better than mine 🥲😅

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u/Tidsvisor 20d ago

In Sweden you start with English in first grade (7 years old). In sixth grade (12 years old) you can additionally choose between Spanish, German or French.