the passage on foreign language education is unclear english is compulsory throughout the state in secondary schools but it is not always the first foreign language pupils at gymnasium are often required to learn latin as their first foreign language in some states foreign language education starts in the grundschule primary school for example in north rhine westphalia english is started in the third year brandenburg starts with either english or polish and baden w rttemberg starts english in the first year i'm a bit unclear on the sentence starting for example convention requires this to offer examples related to the immediately preceding sentence foreign language education in grundschule primary or elementary school but after reading it i started wondering whether these were actually examples relating to the preceding sentence i e english not always being the first foreign language