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| Do you use the language you studied in high school? |
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25% |
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21% |
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| I understand a few words, but barely use it |
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| I am currently studying a foreign language |
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ozactie_squrix
Joined: 28 Oct 2003 Total posts: 472 Location: Kansas Age: 22 Gender: Female |
 Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 7:34 am
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I'm in my second year of spanish. I don't use it except when I'm in class.  It's fun to say random things to my friends though, especially since they don't know what I'm talking about.
Oh, the spanish thread would be fun Kutin! |
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| Caroline |
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 7:48 am
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i can still vaguely understand Spanish. (I last took it in my sophomore year.... passed the state test and then stopped). When people ask me if I know Spanish, I reply with "un poquito" I started in 7th grade.
Luckily most jobs I've had have someone who is fluent and will help me if need be.
I agree that the younger kids are, the better they pick it up. That is why my mother's school teaches it in kindergarten. And I think shows like Dora are helping too.
MY boss's son had a Cuban nanny when he was a kid (he's a senior in HS) now. He learned Spanish very young, and he's fluent because of this. |
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| TopesAndLex |
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 7:56 am
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| I took spanish from k-12 .. i understand and read it very well but can barely speak it |
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| Beaglebaby |
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 11:09 am
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I didn't respond to the poll.
Graduated in 1993 (along with the Saved By the Bell and Beverly Hills 90210 crew!).
Studied Spanish for 2 years.
I know enough to pick out a few words, and know if somebody is talking about me. I could eat and find lodging if for some reason I was stuck in a Spanish speaking country.
I do not use it on a regular basis at all.
Oh, and I know one fun sentence in French : Voulez vouz coupe le fromage avec moi? (probably brutally misspelled, but y'all get the point..)
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| Martisimo |
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 11:21 am
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| GSRT wrote: | | 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. |
God, would it ever! I would love to be fluent in at least two languages. If it had been taught to me as a child it would have been as easy to learn as breathing! I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't want to do that if it would be so easy to learn as a child.
Anyway, what about languages in college? I was only required to take one year of a foreign language in high school when I was 15. It was French. I remember nothing.
I took Spanish in college, two years of it, because it was a much more beneficial language to learn, given the rising hispanic population. If I had somehow kept up with it, I could probably have much better job than I have now. Employers here are scrambling to find people who can communicate in Spanish that are also college educated.
The classes were hard, but at the same time I loved it in many ways. At the time I could read and write it pretty well, understand it spoken to me well, but me repying out loud in Spanish was quite difficult.
My doctor at the time (he's now retired) was a US born man, but quite well traveled and also multi-lingual. When I'd go in to see him for checkups he'd speak to me entirely in Spanish once he learned I was taking it in school, and I'd reply in English. I'm a geek, but it was fun!
Posted Wed Apr 12, 2006 9:24 am:
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Graduated in 1993 (along with the Saved By the Bell and Beverly Hills 90210 crew!)
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Whoo-hoo! We're like, icons or something.
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| yoonamania |
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 11:25 am
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| I know how to count in French and Spanish. That's about it. |
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| dustyszoo |
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 11:27 am
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ok...I started French classes in kindergarten. I took it all the way through highschool. So basically I should now how to speak it.
Unfortunately, the french that is taught versus the french that is spoken by french canadians is very different.
I can watch tv and read in french and understand the bulk of it. But to speak it with a french person? no way no hel. |
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Sablesmom
Joined: 28 Oct 2003 Total posts: 435 Location: Maryland Gender: Female |
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 11:34 am
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I loved language so I took Spanish, French and Latin in High School - I still get to use the Spanish. My son married a spanish speaking girl in January (he he - I am now the MIL) so I really get to use it (well, more spanglish than anything). Also, my son, who never wanted anything to do with language (probably because I did) now speaks Spanish - I love it!! I really wish I had a chance to use it more. I am really rusty. (1977)
In college I took Spanish, Russian, a little German and old church slavic. I rarely use any of the other ones but am glad I did it. I will never be fluent but loved having the chance to learn some of them. (1984)
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| GSRT |
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 11:39 am
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| That's odd dusty. |
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| SaritasMom |
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 11:42 am
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I took one year of french in 7th or 8th grade because
it was mandatory, I hated it
I graduated HS in 1982 |
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| dustyszoo |
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 11:43 am
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| GSRT wrote: | | That's odd dusty. |
not really. Have you ever tried to converse with a Northern Quebecois? Or a Manitoban who is french?
Very, VERY different dialects, accents and words. |
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| Martisimo |
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 11:44 am
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| dustyszoo wrote: |
I can watch tv and read in french and understand the bulk of it. But to speak it with a french person? no way no hel. |
I think it's that way for many people who learn a foreign language in school. It's normal.
I think what would fix that is some sort of immersion. Where you are forced to practice speaking it. I think it would "click" pretty shortly.
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| GSRT |
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 11:44 am
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Yes, and have not had any problems. Just seems odd.
| dustyszoo wrote: | | GSRT wrote: | | That's odd dusty. |
not really. Have you ever tried to converse with a Northern Quebecois? Or a Manitoban who is french?
Very, VERY different dialects, accents and words. |
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| gephartzoo |
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 11:45 am
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I took french in high school and can't even count anymore.
'95 grad
In middle school we did basics of French, Spanish and German.
You don't use it- you lose it.
I wanted to take spanish as it would have come in handy, but my last name began with a Z so I got stuck with French.
I wish they has sign language as an option. I have a computer program to teach me sign language, but I'm not motivated enough to do it. The deaf people in my family read lips, so I get the easy way out! |
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| yoonamania |
Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:01 pm
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I do want to speak French though. I loved the way Mirovingian in the Matrix 2 and 3 cursed in French and said it's like wiping your **insert another word for butt here** with silk and it really sounded good...  |
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