Highschool foreign languages

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  1. maryjaneguitargurl

    maryjaneguitargurl I am just like you.

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    I just started taking german and I love it so far. Anyone taking any foreign languages?

    peace
    chickens
     
  2. neoteny

    neoteny Member

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    I took Latin in high school. And now in college I am doing ancient Greek, and starting Italian this semester. I'm hoping to spend a semester in Athens, so I'll need to learn some modern Greek, also. If I want a Ph.D., I'll need to know German and French, too. I'd really like to study Sanskrit. I love languages.
     
  3. maryfairy

    maryfairy flower

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    i took three years of french in high school. and one year of spanish. didn't help me much.. but i enjoyed it
     
  4. Simulato

    Simulato Member

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    I took German in year 7, and Japanese in years 8 and 9, but I couldn't take Japanese again this year (even though I really wanted to) because it takes up a full three terms of options and I had heaps of other stuff I had to do. I'm hoping to go back to it when I'm older. :)
     
  5. Nisha

    Nisha Forlorn.

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    my mother put me in hebrew school when i was younger. i dont appreciate it liek i do now though, and next year we will have an option to take spanish.
     
  6. lorelai_g87

    lorelai_g87 Senior Member

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    As for me, the foreign languages I study in highschool are English and French. I also attended spanish class, but I dropped it.
     
  7. LoveSunnyDay

    LoveSunnyDay Member

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    First of all I am learning english for eleven years, but it isn't very well...German almoust for eight years, but this language it's too hard,....but another choise was Russian, but I preffer German....And for two years french, but I can say only my name and where I live :)
     
  8. KozmicBlue

    KozmicBlue Senior Member

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    Back in school (and not just in high school) I studied German (9 years), English (8 years), Swedish (6 years), French (5 years), Latin (3 years) and Spanish (1 year). English and Swedish are the only languages I use almost daily (excluding Finnish of course), and it's such a shame I've forgotten so much of the other languages. I plan on taking some courses in French and Spanish in uni to improve my skills.
     
  9. SilverClover14

    SilverClover14 Senior Member

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    I'm on my 6th year of Spanish, taking AP Spanish language next semster and hopefully next year taking AP Spanish literature but I don't know due to the fact that only 3 people on average take the class a year.

    I'm also studying French this year as well. At my high school we have 4 classes a semester... so I can "double up" in both of my languages. I wish we had more than 8 classes that we can take though because 4 classes are automatically core classes (math, science, history, English) and therefore I can only take two languages, filling up my elective (arts, music, anything else..) classes. Oh well.. it'll pay off when I'm a lingual genius and all.
     
  10. noland

    noland Member

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    I took four level of Spanish in high school, levels 2 and 3 were merit courses and 4 was an AP course. The AP test told me I was an idiot and couldn't speak the language, I beg to differ. I wanted to take French as well, but the bastards told me I couldn't. Now the only time I get to speak Spanish is when I talk to myself or write notes. Languages are so much cooler than other classes(for example...everything else.)
     
  11. FreeBird1969

    FreeBird1969 Fleas on their paws.

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    This is my first year of French, and I've absolutely fallen in love with the language. It's even carried on into other classes, and my teachers tend to give me weird looks...:p
     
  12. Duncan

    Duncan Senior Member Lifetime Supporter

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    I majored in German in college. Even planned to be a professional translator. I took Spanish and French in high school. Now I'm enrolled in Mandarin.
     
  13. Duckie

    Duckie Member

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    Oh dear...yea...I'm a juinor and am in my 3rd year of Spanish...and it's interesting. We have a different teacher this year, she's a little off. We mostly dance, ya know rumba, chacha...yea. Haha...She's crazy, but that's okay. She started mooing at us the other day...
     
  14. Ellenfunkel

    Ellenfunkel Member

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    I'm in my third year of highschool French. It's not as bad as it sounds.
     
  15. Lucy_In_The_Sky

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    I have had English for almost eight years now, French for six years, Latin for five and I have had German for four years but I couldn't continue it, the school wouldn't allow me too (they said I was doing too many subjects lol). My primary language is Dutch. I read in all the other languages I have learned, except for Latin because it's way too difficult. But I have been told that even someone who had a major in Latin at college needs an hour or something to read one page...so I don't feel too guilty :).
     
  16. kjhippielove88

    kjhippielove88 color + rhyme

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    this is my 4th year of french
     
  17. hailtothekingbaby

    hailtothekingbaby Yowzers!

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    Indeed, Dutch schools offer a lot of languages. I have had eight years of English, six of French, five of German and two of Latin but I sucked at that. I had all the languages I could have on my school. You can have just reading or reading and speaking, writing and listening. I had the full package of all languages and I don't think this has been a waste at all. Of course, in a country as small as Holland it's not hard to get abroad so I can imagine having more use for foreign languages than the average American.
     
  18. SageDreamer

    SageDreamer Senior Member

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    I had four years of high school French and three of high school Spanish. I had to be really pushy to take a second foreign language; that was just unheard of.



    When I went to college, I decided to major in Russian, but dropped it because it was so rough. I also took a four-week Biblical Hebrew course and couldn't keep up. I do regret it. However, a class that supposedly enables you to read the entire Old Testament after four weeks is a bit intense.


    I am still able to sound out words I see in Russian, and I learned the Greek alphabet after taking linguistics. I don't speak Greek, but I can sound words out. I was able to read street signs and subway signs in Moscow, and if I ever get to Greece, I might not feel quite so lost.

    After graduate school, I took about two years of German, thinking it might be helpful if I went on for my doctorate. I also had some Italian classes with our local Sons of Italy group.



    As busy as I am these days, I'd still really like to learn another language or two. I keep thinking of Portuguese, Greek, Russian--maybe Japanese or a Scandinavian language.
     
  19. DiffKettleOfFish

    DiffKettleOfFish Kickin' it

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    I took 5 years of French, and I can still kinda speak it..

    j'aime parler francais parce que je pense francais est la langue plus belle dans le monde :)
     
  20. JanaXGIRL

    JanaXGIRL Senior Member

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    you like German? I learned it for 5 yrs and I'm happy I haven't it anymore.. otherwise, I learn Czech, english, spanish and gonna learn french.. und so Ich spreche Deutsch.
     
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