re: #78 Anymouse

When I was an exchange student in Brazil (in the eleventh grade about ten centuries ago), foreign language was mandatory (French, English, or Latin, but the school put me in English because they wanted a native speaker in the class), trigonometry and such maths classes were mandatory, world history was mandatory, physics and chemistry were mandatory, &c.

When I got home, after my school transcripts from Brazil were translated, I’d earned enough credits to graduate without attending my senior year in high school (except I had missed Michigan’s mandatory 11th grade US History, so I had to take it - though I went the whole day anyway). My school gave me two years credit for foreign language (Portuguese), since I took second-year high school Portuguese (for native speakers, that was a tough row to hoe) and passed. (The Brazilian school told me I was the first American student they’d had that ever passed the course.)

Tudo bem feito! Agora você pode falar portugues?