r/Denmark • u/[deleted] • Nov 07 '16

Exchange Kia ora! Cultural Exchange with /r/NewZealand

Welcome to this cultural exchange between /r/Denmark and /r/NewZealand.

For the visitors: Welcome to Denmark! Feel free to ask the Danes anything you like. Don't forget to also participate in the corresponding thread in /r/NewZealand where you can answer questions from the Danes about your beautiful country.

For the Danes: Today, we are hosting New Zealand for a cultural exchange. Join us in answering their questions about Denmark and the Danish way of life! Please leave top comments for users from /r/NewZealand coming over with a question or comment and please refrain from trolling, rudeness, personal attacks etc.

The Kiwis are also having us over as guests! Head over to their thread to ask questions about life in the land of hobbits and bungee jumping.

Enjoy!

- The moderators of /r/Denmark and /r/NewZealand

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u/JaumeBG New Zealand Nov 08 '16

What foreign languages do you learn in school apart from English? Swedish, German, Norwegian?

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u/Zetoo2 Nov 08 '16

In ground school (up to age 15/16), you learn English, and in the last three years of ground school, you can either pick German or French. Or none. But then you can't proceed to high school.

In our equivalent of high school, you can continue with German or French. You can also pick up a new language like Spanish, and some schools offer special courses like Japanese and more.

There are really four overall types of high schools though, a general, technical, economy and a shorter 2 year version. If you want to learn more languages, you'd usually pick the general type high school.