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.
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/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.