*high-fives DS*

edit: found an emoticon for it

We used to be taught german in school here until they went and lost the war. After that, it was replaced by english.

From 3:d or 4:th grade you start taking english, usually two times a week, and it stays on the curriculum. Later you also get the option to learn French or German (I opted for Computer Science instead which I regret, I think learning French would be of more use than having been able to write simple programs in 'Compis' twenty years ago.

I also took some spanish ten years ago and I am taking another course in that this fall. I consider myself relatively fluent in English, but understand very little spanish at the moment. Also understand norweigan and danish, but not much german. So I'm only bi-and-a-half-lingual at the moment but hoping to be trilingual in a year or so. Once I learn Spanish enough to get by I'm chosing between German, Franch and Arabic as the next lingo.

Cliff notes:

You start learning English in school at 10-11 years of age, since my of the TV and movies are in English it's easy to keep somewhat fresh even if you don't have english-speaking friends.