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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5010 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 41 of 70 16 May 2011 at 2:07am | IP Logged | |||||
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And I forgot to ask. You said you were already preparing hard for your university studies, Akao, but what do you want to study and become? I'm just curious. :-)
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| Akao aka FailArtist Senior Member United States Joined 5337 days ago 315 posts - 347 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Toki Pona | Message 42 of 70 16 May 2011 at 2:13am | IP Logged | |||||
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Well I'm hoping very much to be a multilingual translator and/or a musician. I'm already
at a highly advanced level with the guitar and produced a CD with my band. My language skills have not gone very far but hopefully by the time I'm done with High School I will be very proficient in Chinese and a few other languages. Chinese is definitely my language of focus for the next few years. If that fails I'm likely to go into quantum physics or medicine. Edited by Akao on 16 May 2011 at 2:23am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5131 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 43 of 70 16 May 2011 at 2:16am | IP Logged | |||||
I'm genuinely curious about this: I was apparently under the false impression that you were still being homeschooled, because you mentioned only 5 students. But here I see you've put "formal" in quotes. Is this an advanced program in a larger school? A pilot program? I'd be interested in hearing more about it. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Akao aka FailArtist Senior Member United States Joined 5337 days ago 315 posts - 347 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Toki Pona | Message 44 of 70 16 May 2011 at 2:17am | IP Logged | |||||
It's a very strict private school. What I meant by 'formal' was non-homeschool. Edited by Akao on 16 May 2011 at 2:18am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5131 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 45 of 70 16 May 2011 at 2:21am | IP Logged | |||||
Still curious :-) How is your educational day structured? Do you have just one teacher, or several? Do you have extra-curricular activities? Is it just your class(es) that has/have 5 students? R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Akao aka FailArtist Senior Member United States Joined 5337 days ago 315 posts - 347 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Toki Pona | Message 46 of 70 16 May 2011 at 2:25am | IP Logged | |||||
It's structured exactly like a normal high school. Show up early in the morning, "homeroom", classes, lunch, more classes, shake the teachers hands and goodbye. The difference being our coursework is much more challenging. I compared it to my brother who is in a public high school after being kicked out of the private school we were going to. However, it is in an old mansion which is quite amusing. Edited by Akao on 16 May 2011 at 2:26am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Declan1991 Tetraglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6440 days ago 233 posts - 359 votes Speaks: English*, German, Irish, French | Message 47 of 70 16 May 2011 at 12:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
BTW, normally any post I've read like this gets progressively worse and worse until I come to think that I couldn't stand the OP, but you're the opposite. Unfortunately you made a really bad first impression in your post! The more you've talked the more you've explained how you're coping just fine. Though I would like to mention one thing, just because something might be easy, and you know a lot of it already, doesn't mean you won't learn something. Yes, you could probably learn it slightly faster in a different environment, but to what aim? Are you such a rush through life? I would advise that you shouldn't be! You'll rarely be in a position that what you have to do is so easy that you have oceans of free time to devote to whatever you want. Personally, I never complained about my coursework being too easy for me. Yes, I could probably have learned enough extra stuff in the two weeks before the August repeat exams the year I did my Leaving Cert. to pass and move into second year, but it would have been an awfully stupid mistake to make. Yes, the stuff was quite easy for me, but I did learn things nonetheless, I solidified any knowledge I did have, and afterwards, I was in a much better position to finish out my course. Because of the way our school is structured, I could have gone to college a year earlier than I did (we have an optional non-academic year), but that would have been an awfully foolish mistake in my case again, because the non-academic skills I learned then were of great benefit to me later. Finally, yes, school is always going to be a small world. Your horizons will broaden when you go to college, but only if you're at a stage where you can live college life! A fourteen-year-old (for example, though you can't go to college at that age in Ireland) in an Irish college would be far more isolated and lonely that that same child in school, because no matter how mature you are, you won't fit in. You couldn't take part in clubs, societies etc. And it is there that you will find people with similar interests, not necessarily in your college course. Edited by Declan1991 on 16 May 2011 at 12:23pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| dmaddock1 Senior Member United States Joined 5434 days ago 174 posts - 426 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Esperanto, Latin, Ancient Greek | Message 48 of 70 17 May 2011 at 3:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I have very much enjoyed reading this thread so a hearty thanks to all.
I too had similar experiences when I was your age, both in regards to my formal education and in the broader social senses, including being disappointed with the difficulty of finding "intellectual equals." (I suspect most people here do, which is one reason we keep coming back to HTLAL.) I suppose I don't have anything new to say here which hasn't already been said, except to simply add another name to the list in the hope that knowing there are others who have felt as you do makes some of the tedium bearable. d. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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