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[Citius Altius Fortius]

Which languages do brazilian students learn in schools? And do they have to keep one language until their final school exam?

[DannyelBrazil]

At after 8th grade, mandatory English and Spanish for public and private schools...

Before that English is very often learned in private school and now in Rio's public system.

I don't know what you mean about keep the language for final exam... Since Brazilian educational system (as many things in Brazil) is very different from those in Northern Hemisphere...

[Citius Altius Fortius]

Well - in Germany the students have to fulfil some criteria to achieve the final school exam - e.g. they are not allowed to give up all languages - therewith they learn e.g. english, french, spanish, portugues, chinese until they leave school

[DannyelBrazil]

We don't have this final exam to achieve graduation in primary and secondary school...

We have a exam (vestibular or now ENEM test) to get the University... And some Universities asks for a foreign language, other worse Universities don't.

[DannyelBrazil]

Out of topic...

Sometimes we get angry about foreigners comments on Brazil for this reason. Brazil can not be compared to Europe or North America or their vision, since many, but many things in Brazil are pretty different... (For good and bad things).

Brazil is not a rich country (I've already told here middle class for Brazil is not the same concept of middle class in Europe or USA),
Brazil is not placed in the Northern Hemisphere (that's why our school year begins in february and end in november)... Yes, our christmas day is on the beach with 40C sun...
All our commercial holidays are different (valentines in june, mother's day in may, father's day in august...)
Our country federation is centralised in Federal Govt (In USA, for example, each state have its own laws - in Brazil minor laws are allowed to be discussed into the states).
We don't have counties (only states and municipalities-city administration).
Our police force is military and there is also a civilian police (yes, we have two separate polices) only make investigations... And both polices are not based on municipalities... The states govts. that rules the polices...

That's why many things can not be compared to Northern Hemisphere ones... And that's why some comments here are complete inaccurate...

[Citius Altius Fortius]

Out of topic...

Sometimes we get angry about foreigners comments on Brazil for this reason. Brazil can not be compared to Europe or North America or their vision, since many, but many things in Brazil are pretty different... (For good and bad things).

There is no reason to get angry - here on GB we are interested in the world and how things are run differently in different countries...

I was asking since I think it is important for Olympic Games to creat an international atmosphere in the city during the time of the Olympic Games - it is helpful when they are Brazilians who can speak several languages (by the way I had asked nearly the same question in the London forum)

[danfla]

there is no reason to be angry, this is different in many countries on north hemisphere too. The brazilian committee already said that languages course will be avaible for people who want to learn and will be in contact with foreigners during the games.

[DannyelBrazil]

I told it was out-of-topic...

I said we get angry when foreigners made comments on Brazil based on the Europeans things (not your case, Citius, I was talking about favelas-social-culture-things).

I used my answer to your question to make an example that things in Brazil are really different... And I loved your question, and your behavior, Citius, because you want to know more about Brazil. This is good!

I never entered the Madrid threads to make complains about Madrid and Spain things, since I never been there, I'm not familiar to Spanish culture and economic-social things... Neither for Tokyo. I can talk a little about USA, since my family had a house there in the past, and I went many times to USA.

The useless discussions here happens when other people says a lot of bullshit about Brazil without knowing not about us.

Again: it's not the case here in this topic, that's why I mentioned it's out-of-topic.

[DannyelBrazil]

there is no reason to be angry, this is different in many countries on north hemisphere too. The brazilian committee already said that languages course will be avaible for people who want to learn and will be in contact with foreigners during the games.

I'm not angry with Citius, I only used the example of our talking to show that things in Brazil are different and other members here in GB should behave like Citius, that wants to know more about Brazil.

There are people here that make a lot of posts on Brazil without know the capital of Brazil or where Brazil is placed in the world map...

Not angry with the discussion here, that's why I said: it out-of-topic...

[DannyelBrazil]

BTW, languages in school is a very important issue for a country who wants to receive the world...

Once again, my poor English (reading it now - my first post) almost created a mess here...
Sorry.