School are not obliged to offer mother tongue instruction.
Mother tongue education takes place at Hamburg schools, priority in elementary school, in the languages Turkish - Russian - Polish - Bosnian - Farsi - Albanian and Dari.
The traditional language instruction is integrated into everyday school life and given by employed teachers. In addition, there are other locations where lessons are given as a central offer in the afternoon. Teaching in the language of origin is an additional offer and participation is voluntary. (Http://li.hamburg.de/herkunftssprachlicher-unterricht/)
In secondary schools, lessons in the origin language can be given either as a supplementary course offer or as a second or third foreign language. In secondary schools, French, Latin, Russian or Spanish can be learned as a second foreign language.
In the district schools, students can choose Chinese, French, Latin, Polish, Russian, Spanish or Turkish as their second foreign language.
As a third foreign language, French, Spanish, Russian, Latin, Italian, Turkish or Chinese are available at Gymnasium.
Further information about the languages and the schools offering the languages: http://bildungsserver.hamburg.de/sprachen/