Foreign Languages - GCSE
 

As there seem to be a fair few people getting their GCSE results today (congratulations everyone!), and I'm feeling inquisitive, I thought I'd do a completely non-scientific little poll:

I read a report back in June saying that the number of people sitting GCSE exams in foreign languages is at an all time low, despite increased interest in Spanish. When I sat my GCSEs back in the Dark Ages, it was compulsory to take at LEAST one foreign language. I gather that's no longer the case, and you can now drop them at the end of the 3rd year.

So, did you take a foreign language at GCSE? If so, which did you do?

welsh...which technichally isnt forign as i live here, but it is second language, and feels liek its alien cos its so hard. it is compulsary though. apart form that none cos im dyslexic and suck at languages.

It was compulsory for me to take a language at GCSE - 2 years ago - unless there was a very good reason against it.

As it happened, I took French AND German for GCSE, so, yeah.

Did spanish, and doing it for a level too

Ooooh yes I did Latin too, forgot to say

I did French, for what it's worth, primarily because I found the German language to be rather harsh and ugly. I've just realised that the French sentence in the poll is grammatically incorrect :(

French =]

Español!

i think the last one said "i odnt speak a language" so i chose that haha. I didnt take any

I dont see why the goverment are so bothered about whetehr students are taking a language anymore. I didnt wanna study one, so i didnt. People who do, have that option.

I did my GCSEs a couple of years ago and did french, spanish and russian

I did my GCSE's last year and took French and Spanish. As far as I'm aware, it's still compulsory to take at least one modern language for GCSE at my school.

I was gunna point that out but then thought that I'd got it wrong. Genius.

I also found German quite...different, though harsh is probably close to how I found it. There's something beautiful about French.

I did French and Latin.

I didnt take a language at GCSE, being forced to do one now i'm in second year of A-Levels, so decided to learn german =]

I did GCSE's this year but it is still compulsary at my school and i took french and also latin

I had a choice between french or spanish, and there was no way I was going to do spanish, so french for me =]

I had advanced English and German (my native language) for my Abitur (kind of GCSE).

I can understand that you don´t like German that much.
The grammar is sooo complicated and even me make a lot of mistakes.

I love English...the sound, the grammar, the words,....

Feel free to write me in German if you want to practise it.

I did my GCSEs last year and I took French. I love the French language, I took it to AS level but I didn't do so well so I doubt it'll be going any further! I love how it sounds though. <3

I took french for GSCE and wanted to do it for A level. I did do that even though some people suggested not to do it cus its hard blah blah. But I did it until march this year and then dropped out because it was too much and I kept failing certain tests and kept crying after my lessons.

I did Spanish. I was meant to get an A ... but ended up with a D. I really regret that. Every time I see my old Spanish teacher she keeps reminding me how I messed up. But yus. Spanish. I also did Italian GCSE.. But that wasnt in school.