Trivia 1-28-16 qu'est que c'est?

[TinCan]

Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.

 

[sarladaise]

French and Spanish

 

[lelliott19]

From 1803 - 1856 French
From 1856 - 1940 French and Spanish
http://www.usma.edu/dfl/SiteAssets/SitePages/Summer Faculty Workshop/Teaching FL at West Point.pdf

 

[ErnieMac]

French.

 

[BrrrBRRRR]

French and in 1854, Spanish was added.

 

[hoosier]

Given the title of the thread, I feel on fairly safe ground in guessing that one of them was French.

The question doesn't give much guidance as to how many languages were required.

I will guess that there were three, with Spanish and German being the two languages required in addition to French.

 

[7th Texas Mounted Rifles]

Les étudiants devaient apprendre le français et l'espagnol.

Los estudiantes tenían que aprender francés y español .

(FRENCH AND SPANISH!)

 

[kholland]

Maybe not were but NOW they are required to take at least 2 semesters of a foreign language. Cadets choose from among eight languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Persian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

 

[Nathanb1]

French or Spanish in the 1800s, German eventually added.

Edit - I will interpret this answer to mean that German was added after the 1800s, so this answer is OK.

Hoosier

 

[ami]

French and Spanish

Edit - The question did not specify a time frame. Since this is a Civil War trivia quiz, I feel that it should have been understood that it was not asking about languages that were not taught before the Civil War. However, I feel that it was open to two possible interpretations: one, that it was asking specifically about languages that were taught during the Civil War (1861-65), or two, that it was asking about languages that were required of cadets who eventually served in the Civil War. Under the first interpretation, French and Spanish is the correct answer; under the second interpretation, French alone would be a correct answer in the case of cadets who attended West Point prior to 1854.

Therefore, I will accept either French or French and Spanish as correct answers.

Hoosier