In America, we speak English, the world’s most popular language. In other countries, English is taught in schools as a second language because it is the bridge language that connects countries with different languages. But since we already speak English, nobody knows what foreign languages we should learn. Our options are Spanish, French, and Italian. Spanish makes sense because we’re right next to Mexico and a lot of people in America speak Spanish. French makes sense because Canada is to the north of the US, and some Canadians speak French, but it is very unlikely that an American will ever need to know French. There are a lot of Spanish speakers at my school, but I’ve never met anyone who speaks fluent French. Italian takes the title for least logical language to learn though. Why would we want to learn Italian? I have no idea. Perhaps due to its similarities to Spanish, English and French. The second most popular language in the world is Mandarin Chinese, I think we should be allowed to learn that. Independently, I’m learning Japanese. I wish I could study it in school as well. People who don’t speak English as your first language, what can you learn at school? Are there other languages, or just English? And English native speakers, do your schools have different choices than mine?