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Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 9:42 pm Post subject: high school foreign languages

this is sparked from another thread. I'm running this out of curiosity.

Also out of curiosity, include your year of graduation so we can see how far removed from high school the voters are

ETA Class of 1998

Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 9:45 pm Post subject:

I didn't have to do a language in high school, but I did take Spanish in 7th and 8th grade. I don't remeber if it was for a semester or what. I remember some things like colors, numbers, basic stuff.
My 6 yr old probably knows more than me from watching tv shows like Dora the Explorer.

I graduated in 96.

Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 9:46 pm Post subject:

Took french, german, and spanish in school, can not speak it, can not understand it. Oh well I can count to like ten in german and into the thousands in spanish. I did not graduate.

Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 9:48 pm Post subject:

I took 4 years of spanish. I remember some but have not used it. I graduated in 96.

Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 9:51 pm Post subject:

I had two years of Spanish in high school, can't speak a word of it and can't understand much more of it. Also don't use it. Heck, I'd be hard pressed to say hi in Spanish. About the only thing I even remember how to say is "I don't speak spanish" in spanish.

I had one of French in collage and can only speak a small amount of it because of some of the words used in our langague and can't really understand more of it than that either. Also don't use it at all.

My husband never took any foriegn language in high school, but did live for around 9 months in Spain while in the Air Force during Desert Shield/Storm and does understand some Spanish, but can't speak more than a few words of it.

I graduated high school in 1993, and took French my first year of collage 1994.

Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 9:55 pm Post subject:

Yes I use it still. We started in grade one, that is something that maybe should be implemented everywhere. It would be a good thing.

Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:00 pm Post subject:

I didn't learn any different languages in school. I did learn a few words from hubby but them are mostly naughty words. And I learned a few from Dora the Explorer.

My little sister they started teaching them German in kindergarden but that only lasted for one year. Then for some reason they stopped teaching it so young.

Oh and I didn't graduated. But if I had I would have graduated in 98 or 99.

Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:11 pm Post subject:

I studied French for 4-1/2 years in hs, 1 yr in college, can understand written stuff better than spoken. Wish I had kept up with it.

Class of 67

ps: recently wanted to use some simple geometry to figure out something and knew there was a formula but couldn't begin to figure it out. And I worked so hard to "get" geometry - I wan't gonna let it beat me - doesn't seem fair.

Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:13 pm Post subject:

I've been taking Spanish for 5 years (still am, this is the last year) and I still can't speak it very well. But I can understand it well. I watch the Spanish channel sometimes just to see how much of it I can understand...I get most of it but sometimes I can't hear what they are saying clearly because they talk so quickly!

I was actually thinking of this last week...if there are enough people here that can understand/write Spanish, would anyone want to take part in a Spanish thread? I know it would help me brush up on some things...I think it would be kind of fun, but I may just be weird like that.

Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:17 pm Post subject:

i took spanish sophmore year. I cant understand the lot of it but i can speak a little bit. I plan on taking it in college and japanese. ^.^ I plan on ONLY speaking those two languages until i learn! ^.^ I graduate in a month (june) or so

Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:42 pm Post subject:

I've taken French for a few years now. Four, I guess. I don't really USE it.

Je parle un peu, mais... Wink

Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:38 pm Post subject:

I took French for 4 years.

class of 99

I still remember some of it, but I dont use it.

Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 6:01 am Post subject:

I took German for 2 yrs,so I can speak a little,the only problem is that I guess its not understandable. Laughing

However,I can catch on here and there and know my numbers etc.

Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 6:12 am Post subject:

4 years of french in high school, 1 year in college - graduated in '98. I remember some...I occasionally speak french to the hounds just to practice. Not sure if I say anything that makes sense though Laughing

Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 7:23 am Post subject:

I took 3 years of French, mainly because it was 'college prep', however, I never went to college. Got married instead, what was I thinking??? Razz

Graduated in 1992

Posted Wed Apr 12, 2006 4:26 am:

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