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The Secondary school I attended switched from Grammar to Comprehensive as I entered the 6th Form, but fortunately it retained its 'A'-level teaching staff.
When I joined in '71, French was compulsory, and a 2nd Foreign language could be chosen from Spanish, German, Latin, and Russian! I chose Russian as the 'Language Trip' meant the 11 of us were in Red Square in '73!
The only local Secondary school offering a full choice of languages, was until a (new overflow school opened), a 16-form entry!
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And we could do French, German and I think Russian. I suspect Russian was available as we had a teacher who must have learnt it by being on the Combined Services Language course during his national service.