Few Hungarian Pupils Learn A Second Foreign Language
- 28 Feb 2017 6:04 AM
Almost all Hungarian lower secondary school pupils learnt a foreign language in 2015 but only a few studied two, data compiled by Eurostat shows. Fully 90.5% of the 385,300 lower secondary school pupils in Hungary learnt one foreign language while 6% studied two or more.
The percentage of pupils learning two foreign languages was the lowest in the European Union. In neighbouring Slovakia, the proportion stood at 78% while it was 65% in the Czech Republic and 94% in Poland.
The percentage of Hungarians who learn a second foreign language improves in upper secondary education, where the figure reached 37.6% in 2015, Eurostat data show.
Still, the proportion was lower than that in Slovakia (67%), the Czech Republic (50.5%) and Poland (69.8%). English is the most commonly studied language at lower secondary level in Hungary. German is runner-up.
Republished with permission of Hungary Matters, MTI’s daily newsletter.
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