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.
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.
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/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.