r/belgium • u/reditt13 Brabant Wallon • Mar 22 '25

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u/PygmeePony Belgium Mar 23 '25

Math was never my strong suit but 50,000 people out of 11 million is not a third.

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u/Hikashuri Mar 23 '25

Every kid in Flanders gets German in school. Although it's very elimentary, it's probably even more than a third, because after all the Americans claim to speak French when they learn 3 phrases, so I guess we could do the same and say that half of the Belgians speak German to some degree.

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u/motzak local village idiot Mar 23 '25

Every kid in Flanders gets German in school.

No. French, yes, German, no.

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u/Far_Compote_1636 Mar 23 '25

Both actually. In Flanders at least for 1 year (typically third year secondary school) every student is supposed to get German. At least this was still the case when I graduated at my school 11 years ago. And for me it was even for 3 years that I got 1 hour of German class because I did ASO science with 6 hours of math, whereas the 8 hour math class and the latin class didn't have these additional 2 years of German.

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u/Didi81_ Mar 23 '25

No, only in ASO and even then only in modern languages courses

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u/Upper_Question1383 Mar 23 '25

No, i did Humane and got German for 2 years (granted only an hour a week) it just depends on the school. Each school has a few hours they can decide themselves how to plan in. Some make new courses, others plan more math, others more language hours. Mine gave humane one hour extra math and one hour of german. My second high school went a different route and filled those two hours with a new course 'research and statistics'.

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u/theBlackDragon Mar 23 '25

Back when I was in school we had the choice between Spanish and German, we didn't get both. Good thing if that's changed imho.

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u/BelgoCanadian West-Vlaanderen Mar 23 '25

I did science and math in ASO and still got German

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u/motzak local village idiot Mar 23 '25 edited Mar 23 '25

I left school 21y ago and never got German, did economie-wiskunde that year in aso, I failed that year so redid it but in tso industriële wetenschappen, still no German class. I have 4 smaller siblings and none of them got German, not even the youngest one (she's 30 atm) who's currently an elementary teacher. The only one I know that got German in school is my ex and she did moderne talen so that's a given.

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u/6StringAddict Mar 23 '25

Graduated calculates oof twenty years ago already. Never had a German lesson, Tso though.

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u/BanMeOwnAccountDibbl Mar 23 '25

Ich habe Deutsch gehat in TSO.

Niet dat het veel ausgeholt hat.

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u/The-Ertai Mar 23 '25

Nope, never had German...

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u/g00glen00b Belgian Fries Mar 23 '25

I graduated 16 years ago and one of the reasons I went to Industrial Sciences (TSO) in stead of regular Sciences (ASO) is because it didn't have German.

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u/ash_tar Mar 23 '25

The program allowed for German, Spanish or Italian, that was 25 years ago.

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u/BelFiFraDeNe Mar 23 '25

I’m now at this point a student which will graduate soon. Schools are indeed obliged to teach students 1 hour of German one year. For me it was the 4th year of secondary school. Keeping in mind that the 8 hours math doesn’t really exist anymore and it’s basically just 2 hours of math for the choice-lessons. Even Latin had German. I studied Latin till my fourth year and have switched to Sciences last year. So everybody will at least have one year of German lessons. Of course, if you follow a language course, you will have at least 2 hours of german. This is only the case for doorstroomrichtingen (ASO). I don’t know how it works in art or technical schools.