Answer my question with a question v2

Which of those questions ought I be replying to? 🤔
I mean they're both in response to someone, and there's no question outside of those..

Megan said:
In my country we usually got to pick between French and Russian. Though in my case I got the option to pick Latin, instead. So I picked that, went with it for 6 years (making me a certified Latin expert). And I haven't used it ever since! xD
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Here it's Dutch, English, German and French, all of which are mandatory for the first three years of high school. Though we already start with Dutch and English during elementary school. During the 4th, 5th & potentially 6th years you could pick between French and German, and could drop one of them, which is where I dropped French.
Near my final years they suddenly added Mandarin as an optional language you could take at my high school (though I doubt that was a thing nationwide), but that was already too late for me as you'd need to start following it in earlier years.
 
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How many of those languages can you speak?
 
What if the number might surprise you?

Megan said:
It's funny whenever I listen to someone speak German who clearly isn't German. But it does make me feel better, especially whenever I have to listen to Germans trying to speak English (Zat is ze truz!). xD
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I find it so cute when I hear people try to speak French.

ReKoil said:
Here it's Dutch, English, German and French, all of which are mandatory for the first three years of high school. Though we already start with Dutch and English during elementary school. During the 4th, 5th & potentially 6th years you could pick between French and German, and could drop one of them, which is where I dropped French.
Near my final years they suddenly added Mandarin as an optional language you could take at my high school (though I doubt that was a thing nationwide), but that was already too late for me as you'd need to start following it in earlier years.
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Megan said:
In my country we usually got to pick between French and Russian. Though in my case I got the option to pick Latin, instead. So I picked that, went with it for 6 years (making me a certified Latin expert). And I haven't used it ever since! xD
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In my country, it's English or German at the start of middle school, then English, Spanish or German halfway through middle school (if you took German first, then you have to take English, and if you take English first, you can choose between Spanish and German). ALSO, you can add Latin, and sometimes Ancient Greek if that option exists in your school. And I did English, Spanish, Latin, then dropped Latin for Greek.

So Megan, you took Latin, cause why choose a living language when you can choose a language that no one speaks (however, there are some Wikipedia articles in Latin lol)
 
What if it failed?
Alex_Among_Foxes said:
That's honestly really awesome! Makes me a little jealous in fact.
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I mean, expert is probably too much of an overstatement. There are like two different "titles" you can kinda get. One is called "small Latinum" and the other "big Latinum". The small one you get when you study the language a couple years. The big one you either need to stidy it for six year, I believe. Or you need to get the small one and then write the final exam in that subject. I did both. ^^"
StCooler said:
So Megan, you took Latin, cause why choose a living language when you can choose a language that no one speaks (however, there are some Wikipedia articles in Latin lol)
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(Obviously didn't mention English as the secondary language because which country doesn't teach it?)
We actually got the option to learn Ancient Greek at some point because we happened to have a teacher who taught it.
 
How does anyone fail to do something?
 
Do we need a topic?
 
Is there such a thing as too many topics?
 
Aren't they expendable?
 
Why is everyone getting married around me?
 
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