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| Khublei Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Yugoslavia homestayperu.net Joined 5347 days ago 90 posts - 141 votes  Speaks: English*, Irish*, Spanish Studies: Russian, Khasi, French, Albanian | Message 49 of 94 16 August 2010 at 10:01am | IP Logged | ||
I never knew there were Irish classes in Canada! I'd heard that there are more opportunities in the US to study Irish at 3rd level than in Ireland (because we have so few Universities in Ireland) but I never knew Canada had some too. Are the teachers Irish? Or is it like in Ireland where French/Spanish teachers are Irish? In school I did 4 months of Spanish, 4 years of French and 6 years of German. My level of all three afterwards was terrible. Edited by Khublei on 16 August 2010 at 10:02am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6142 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 50 of 94 16 August 2010 at 11:09am | IP Logged | ||
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I live in Colorado, in the US. My high school offers five languages: Spanish, French, Latin, German, and Japanese. The other main high school in the district offers all the same languages but Mandarin instead of Japanese. At my school you're required to take a foreign language (Spanish, French, Latin, German, or Japanese) up until at least level two. Pathetic, but at least there is a requirement of some sort. Most students drop out after level two or three (people say that colleges prefer to see level three at least), and most people take Spanish, trying to get off the easiest. The popularity is like this:
- Spanish - French - Japanese/German (about equal popularity) - Latin This year I'll be taking German and Japanese, starting in just two days. In past years I took Spanish and French. My school is also literally right next to the University of Colorado, so you can petition the school to let you take classes there for various languages, and the school will pay for them. I know people who are taking Mandarin, Arabic, Italian, German Literature... I need to look into going up there too! Edited by ellasevia on 16 August 2010 at 11:11am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Sabrina VG Pentaglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 5211 days ago 37 posts - 41 votes Speaks: Dutch, Flemish*, English, German, French Studies: Swedish, Welsh | Message 51 of 94 20 August 2010 at 11:51am | IP Logged | ||
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I have studied:
French (compulsory, from 5th grade of primary school onwards) English (compulsory, from 2nd grade of secondary school onwards) German (not compulsory, from 4th grade of secondary school onwards) Spanish (not compulsory, from 5th grade of secondary school onwards). 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5219 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 52 of 94 25 August 2010 at 6:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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Another UK version:
I had a teacher in Primary school who was married to a Frenchman (1969!) so had regular French lessons from Year 4 to 6. Secondary school had French from Y7 to 9 and the school arranged a 5 weeks immersion French in summer break from Year 9 to 13. From Year 7 to 9 had formal Latin (but took it on as one of my extracurricular activities in Y10 and 11): I dodged GCE German with a passion that you can only imagine as I couldnt get on with the teacher and his methods. We organised informal Italian in Y12 and 13 as we had a new guy in school: a language was required if you did the 'General Studies' A level in those days. One of the mathematics teachers spoke Russian which was huge fun. Unfortunately he played be bagpipes too. Religious Education did teach some Hebrew/Aramaic History: often delivered in in the relevant language eg French & the Battle of Hasting. As we were being taught by an international religious order there were great opportunites to get a summer school placement, sometimes paid for. One big disadvantage for me was that it was a unisex school. I could have learned so much more. ;-) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5219 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 53 of 94 25 August 2010 at 6:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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Before anyone corrects me: I realised, even at the time, that modern french and the Battle of Hastings probably didnt fit together.
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| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 6125 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 54 of 94 25 August 2010 at 7:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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I studied 3 years of German, which I remember quite well. The teacher, Mr. Trotter of Glendale High School, was actually very good and very inspiring -- though I never picked up enough vocabulary to become properly fluent, and my pronunciation was notoriously horrible. I was doing some work outside of class, but only fun things. I was struggling through German movies and things, though -- not really understanding but, you know, kind of trying to figure out what was going on.
I'd completely forgotten that I had studied Spanish in Jr. High school, but I was going through some old yearbooks and found some comments about Spanish class. It all came back to me. For some weird reason, in this class, I was teased constantly. I'm not even sure why. Even then I was the nerdy studious type, but this class I was sent to the principal's office when a notebook that was sitting on a desk fell on the floor. This was the class where a student, dropped something smoldering in a trash can, and right in the middle of the teacher speaking it burst into flame. Wow. This class was chaos. I'm still not even sure if it was 7th grade and 8th grade. Or just 7th grade? Hmm. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| celticrover Diglot Newbie Ireland Joined 5206 days ago 10 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, French, Russian | Message 55 of 94 30 August 2010 at 12:57am | IP Logged | ||
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French between 12 and 17 years of age.
Irish between 5 and 17 years of age. Latin between 12 and 15 years of age. One living language, one "almost dead" language and one dead language. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| feanarosurion Senior Member Canada Joined 5281 days ago 217 posts - 316 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish, Norwegian | Message 56 of 94 30 August 2010 at 3:28am | IP Logged | ||
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Although I was born and raised in Canada, where French is generally compulsory in at least elementary school and some junior high schools, I ended up avoiding all those years of French through homeschooling. I then transfered to public school for high school, and I have been taking Spanish, because I liked it more than French. I've got a year left to go, but right now, I'm not really all that good at my Spanish. And my teacher isn't all that great either, so I doubt I'll get any further in the language this year, as it's not really a priority for me, and I'm not that interested in the language or culture in general.
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