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And to add some confusion, the French word “collège” is roughly the equivalent of middle school…
by tbassetto 9y ago
And to add some confusion, the French word “collège” is roughly the equivalent of middle school…
- CPLX 9y agoWhile in Spanish colegio is the equivalent of high school.
- chrisweekly 9y agoAnd in German, "gymnasium" is high school. (No wonder the Germans do so well in sports!) /jk
- jxub 9y agoIn Poland "gimnazjum" used to be middle school until recently when the 8 year primary school system was restored because of heavy critique.
- kgwgk 9y agoIt can also be primary school. In Spain, high school is instituto. And escuela, like ecole in French or school in English, can refer to primary school or higher education institutions.
- jxub 9y agoThis rabbit hole goes deep... In Castillian Spanish "colegio" is often used for primary school, but sometimes as a placeholder name for any kind of compulsory education from preschool up to high school (sometimes in the shortened form "cole").