Originally Posted by
sacha
Of course, French. French is dying amongst the populace, though; there is a higher emphasis on Arabic education now, but many classes are in English. I did all of my schooling in French, English as a 'foreign language' and the only Arabic class I had was a literature class, which I did not take after I was, 14? Don't remember, because I was focusing on the sciences and that was all in French. Then I did the beginning of my university in Arabic but eventually I ended up in Europe taking things in English and French again.
I went to private French Catholic school though, partially in Lebanon, so I am not sure exactly what the public school kids did but I know they did more Arabic. Nowadays they teach mainly in Arabic and English at the same time, French or Russian (French more popular, they only just started offering Russian) as 'foreign language.' Kids do not speak French at all outside of the more educated ones, they just removed it from the Syrian passport.
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