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Retromaniac Member Since: September 2005 Contributions: 7507 Gold Stars: 153 View User Posts	Foreign languages Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:43 pm Central Time What foreign languages did you take in middle school, high school, college, etc? Living in California, I chose Spanish because I thought it'd be easy and useful. I took six years of it, and can still converse pretty well. I haven't taken Spanish in three years now, so I'm a bit rusty. _________________ Oh Gloria, with hair like granite.
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sweetsgrl Member Since: February 2006 Contributions: 2916 Gold Stars: 124 View User Posts	Re: Foreign languages Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 8:34 pm Central Time I just took a semester of American Sign Language. I think I'm going to try to take ASL-2 in the spring.
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Retromaniac Member Since: September 2005 Contributions: 7507 Gold Stars: 153 View User Posts	Re: Foreign languages Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 12:36 pm Central Time My sister's taking ASL in junior college. She was put in German in middle school and kept it through high school, but hated it. _________________ Oh Gloria, with hair like granite.
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Railyn Member Since: November 2005 Contributions: 693 Gold Stars: 12 View User Posts	Re: Foreign languages Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 4:47 pm Central Time I took 3 years of Latin. Failed the first year and had to repeat it. It was much harder than I thought. If nothing else, I can figure out other foreign words pretty good, don't get lost in a courtroom, and can do Roman Numerals like nobody's business.
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Saucerian Member Since: August 2009 Contributions: 287 Gold Stars: 21 View User Posts	Re: Foreign languages Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 5:23 pm Central Time I took Spanish, thinking I'd have some hope of managing since I'd seen the bits on SESAME STREET. As it happened, it was the only class I ever flat-out flunked. Just never got it.
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queen vitamin Member Since: May 2006 Contributions: 210 View User Posts	Re: Foreign languages Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:20 pm Central Time I took up spanish in high school. everything was fine until...past, present and future tenses confused and I went downhill ever since. Now I want to learn to speak japanese. now I'm starting to speak like one. hee! hee!
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Retromaniac Member Since: September 2005 Contributions: 7507 Gold Stars: 153 View User Posts	Re: Foreign languages Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:29 pm Central Time My problem with Spanish was all those weird conjugations like the Subjunctive, Indicative, Imperfect. GAAAAH!!! Could you put it in layman's terms, please? _________________ Oh Gloria, with hair like granite.
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freakyfemme Member Since: August 2007 Contributions: 516 Gold Stars: 7 View User Posts	Re: Foreign languages Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 5:03 pm Central Time French: Grade four through grade twelve (they didn't actually have grade twelve French in my high school, it just skipped straight from grade eleven to OAC, but a lot of people took OAC French in grade twelve, including me. For some reason, Drama and all the language courses worked like that--grade twelve was almost like the "phantom" year, lol). Latin: Grade ten and grade eleven--I stopped after grade eleven because it was getting harder, and I was getting a bit lost, the teacher tended to favour the Classics Club students, and she kind of had mood swings too. Also, it was an elective course that I didn't really need, so I really had no reason to take OAC Latin. German: I took this course as an elective my third year at Bishop's, because I needed an elective outside of music. I was pretty good at it at first, but I started having trouble second semester when the word order kept changing with no rhyme or reason. Nevertheless, I ended up doing pretty well in the class--I think I got at least a high B or so. For our final project, me and two other girls did a skit about Bjork accidentally eating poisoned soup in a restaurant, then going to Heaven and meeting Mozart (and a very disgruntled Schubert as well), and arguing over whose music was better, while God kept trying (unsuccessfully, like a spineless parent, with lots of empty threats of time-outs and no dessert), to get them to stop fighting. In the end, Mozart and Bjork each played a piece of their music for one another, and they decided that they were equally good, and that they should be friends and write music together. The catch-phrase in this skit was "Halt de Schnauze, Gott!!!"; or "Shut up, God!!!"; and at one point, we even had the audience yelling it together. The class liked it, but our conservative teacher wasn't completely sold on the idea of telling God to shut up, lol.
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edehl Member Since: April 2006 Contributions: 1725 Gold Stars: 385 View User Posts	Re: Foreign languages Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 5:11 pm Central Time I had 2 years of Spanish and a year of French in High School.
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Retromaniac Member Since: September 2005 Contributions: 7507 Gold Stars: 153 View User Posts	Re: Foreign languages Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 4:21 pm Central Time My mom took French, but when she went to France, nobody would even try to understand her. My dad took German, and helped my sister to an extent. _________________ Oh Gloria, with hair like granite.
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Sith Penguin Member Since: March 2006 Contributions: 2048 Gold Stars: 224 View User Posts	Re: Foreign languages Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 5:22 pm Central Time Retromaniac wrote: My problem with Spanish was all those weird conjugations like the Subjunctive, Indicative, Imperfect. GAAAAH!!! Could you put it in layman's terms, please? view try learning russian. they have conjugations for everything, from walking down the street to what classes you're taking in school. it made me long for the spanish past imperfect and past participle. _________________ can't talk now, the ninjas are watching me think. The new Halloween Special is up...enjoy! http://the-rl-story.bravehost.com/index.html
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Miri88 Member Since: February 2007 Contributions: 108 Gold Stars: 47 View User Posts	Re: Foreign languages Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 3:47 pm Central Time In germany it depends on the type of school what language you will yearn. In middle school english is a regular school subject for 5 years. In academic high school you learn english, classical latin and french.
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