

Most Swedish kids do actually study German, French or Spanish. You can choose not the and read extra English and Swedish instead but that’s mainly done for people already performing poorly in language, people who really don’t need another language but need to master the ones they know. Some schools (including public schools) also let students study two of those languages instead of just one if they wish to. I’m currently studying French and German
And what’s the benefit to giving up what’s a such big part of our culture? And the part about kids speaking more English than Swedish is mostly not true. I’m in year nine of grundskola and almost no one I know prefers to speak English over Swedish. And that’s an almost because I know people who have grown up with English as their first language