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panic at the disco Cliché Catastrophe Age: 14 Gender: Female Posts: 465	August 23rd, 2008 at 10:47pm In my highschool is Italian or Spanish. It's pathetic. We start learning Spanish here at 1st grade. We are only required to learn for 2 years. But you really can't get into a decent college without all 4 years.
YourWorstEnemy Writer's Block Age: - Gender: Female Posts: 7	August 24th, 2008 at 08:09am I personally think it is just America. In my school in 7th grade you are required to start studying a language. You can choose from Spanish, French or German (which is what I take). You have to take that same language in 8th grade too. I'm not sure what the policy is for high school (from 9th to 12th grade) but I think you can quit taking a language but your parents need to contact the school for you. Therefore it is customary for students to take a language throughout high school. Well, at least i am. I will take Deutsch throughout high school and might also take Spanish if there is room in my schedule. But I had a German penpal and she took like two languages just in middle school, if not three. I am lead to believe that english is a required language for a lot of countries. Which already beats America. A lot of students only take a language for two years and then completely lose their skills for that language. Students of other countries have more oppurtunities to use their newly aquired language skills. For example, the people on this site from other countries. Most, if not all, can speak perfect English. I just think America is soo far behind in education compared to other areas of the world.
i defy you stars. Cliché Catastrophe Age: 15 Gender: Female Posts: 655	August 26th, 2008 at 12:19pm I live in England and i've been learning french since I was in like... Year 2... so I must have been about 6. So that's like... 9 years of French and I'm pretty good I guess. I just don't show it off. Like at our school, if you can say pretty little words no one understands then you're sort of popular and i'm too lazy to do that. I've just finished my French GCSE a year early and I did pretty well. I always did wonder what it would be like to learn a language in the US. We have a pretty good spectrum of kids who are bilingual. But my mum is still fussing like "You're the only one your age to take the exam early!" which isn't true, there were like... 5 others who did and blehhhh! I'm just babbling. But yeah. I think languages are important but my Godmother's daughter (who lives in Texas) is always on about how she wishes she could speak another language but her school doesn't take it seriously. Which, sort of sucks.
Veela_Hugz Amateur Author Age: 14 Gender: Female Posts: 150	August 28th, 2008 at 02:03am In primary school, we learnt French from year 3, and we have to continue learning a language until year 11. I don't think learning a language should be compulsory, especially if it’s not a language you wanted to learn.
Tre the Cool. Literary Genius Age: - Gender: Female Posts: 44318	August 30th, 2008 at 07:17am I've been learning French since I was about...4 or 5. And this year I'm taking Spanish... To get a lot of jobs around here, you have to be bilingual in English and French. So I'm glad that I'm learning French. Spanish just seems cool...so I wanna learn it...
morning light. Ink Slinger Age: 16 Gender: Female Posts: 964	August 30th, 2008 at 07:17am Is French hard? I'm taking it this upcoming school year. And my parents keep telling me it's really hard. But then my friends tell me it's easy.
LaughingToLeave Fanfic Fanatic Age: 19 Gender: Female Posts: 1118	August 30th, 2008 at 12:45pm I live in Serbia and English is obligatory in every school, now, some schools have Russian, German or French too, but it's rare, my school had only English. But i'm on college now, Japanese language and literature , and i'll take German as second language. And i hope to take some courses of French, Dutch and FInnish. Honestly, i'd like to speak them all, but that's impossible. I still have to work on my English, it's not as perfect as I'd want it to be.
Skrillex. Fanfic Fanatic Age: 16 Gender: Female Posts: 1181	August 31st, 2008 at 12:29pm In my school. You had to take French for the first four years of school. I dropped it a few weeks back, since I'm in 5th year now. I hated French. Hated it, hated it, hated it.
Kurtni O'Hara Database Error Age: 16 Gender: Female Posts: 3417	August 31st, 2008 at 04:14pm LaughingToLeave: I still have to work on my English, it's not as perfect as I'd want it to be. If you hadn't said otherwise, I would have assumed English was your first language.
Gravity Thrill Fanfic Fanatic Age: 15 Gender: Female Posts: 1591	August 31st, 2008 at 05:32pm In Britain you start learning languages pretty late whereas in other European countries you start learning languages early (when you're best at learning languages) not many people are that good at languages here. I gave up French this year and I'm doing German for GCSE's instead, French is so hard and I've been doing it for 4 years. I knew more German in just 1. I'm also teaching myself Polish. (:
AFI freak Writer's Block Age: 13 Gender: Female Posts: 4	September 1st, 2008 at 05:05am I wish i knew how to speak spanish. but the only word I know is like taco lol. in my school you cant even take other langages until high school which kinda sucks.
Cristina Scabbia Grammar Guru Age: 17 Gender: Female Posts: 6625	September 1st, 2008 at 10:25am In my school, welsh is compulsory because we're a welsh school. We also learn German or French. We don't get a choice in these, we just get timetabled for one of them.
Seraphim Fanfic Fanatic Age: 14 Gender: Female Posts: 2271	September 2nd, 2008 at 08:49am I live in New Zealand, I really wish my schools made us learn a language from a young age, personally. I started learning French in year eight, two years ago. According to my mother I have "an aptitude for learning languages," and I... guess I sort of do, but I don't have an aptitude for remembering what I've learnt for more than a month or so. Basically - good marks on tests, but I can't use it in real life. I'd really like to be fluent in French, but I feel like I never will. Maybe if I started learning earlier, being fluent would be an easier task. The most our school did is make us take a term of French and a term of Maori in year eight. -rolls eyes- I got the award for Maori. Can't speak a word, except for counting up to ten.
Patriots and Tyrants Student Shakespeare Age: 16 Gender: Female Posts: 7021	September 2nd, 2008 at 09:06am I did Latin in year 9. I sucked at it so much it was almost funny. And I thought it would be the easiest language
Cristina Scabbia Grammar Guru Age: 17 Gender: Female Posts: 6625	September 2nd, 2008 at 09:13pm I've been learning Welsh since I was three, and I'm still not fluent
kafka. Fanfic Fanatic Age: 16 Gender: Female Posts: 3018	September 2nd, 2008 at 10:59pm Secksytime: I did Latin in year 9. I sucked at it so much it was almost funny. And I thought it would be the easiest language I've done three years of Latin and I can barely translate -really- simple sentences. The problem is that it's a dead language, you don't really hear or read it anywhere and in most classes the teachers only focus on writing and basic grammar, at least here, no-one teaches conversation.
above the influence Student Shakespeare Age: 14 Gender: Male Posts: 7466	September 5th, 2008 at 01:36pm Here on Guam, three major languages are taught: Japanese, Spanish, and Chamoro Chamoro, if you're unfamiliar is the native language tongue of Guam and all students, K-12 are required to take the class. You take it for six years straight. K-6. Then when you get to high school it's different. One year of Chamoro, learning the language and writing and speaking it. Another year of Guam History, using your skills in Chamoro language and learning the history of the Guam culture and it's roots. ... I'm currently taking it on my Freshman year because they said it's easier. I didn't choose it though, the school chose it for me D: But I got 4/5 months of Japanese class. Yaay xD
Robot From 1984. Amateur Author Age: 15 Gender: Female Posts: 112	September 5th, 2008 at 11:23pm In Ireland, you speak English from birth, learn Irish once you turn three, learn either French or German at six years old, then learn any other language you want once you turn twelve. I speak English, Irish, French, German, Portugeuse and a bit of Romanian and Spanish...the best part about all this is the field trips. France in January and Berlin in March! Then off to Brazil for the summer...
LaughingToLeave Fanfic Fanatic Age: 19 Gender: Female Posts: 1118	September 6th, 2008 at 03:28pm Kurtni St. Cyr: LaughingToLeave: I still have to work on my English, it's not as perfect as I'd want it to be. If you hadn't said otherwise, I would have assumed English was your first language. thank you, i'll take that as a compliment, but no, English is not my first language, it's Serbian (it's kind of similar to Russian, not the same but there are some similarities) Thank you
Skitty; impaled. Cliché Catastrophe Age: 16 Gender: Male Posts: 670	September 6th, 2008 at 08:40pm Well I studied French for four years, and Latin for two. I did very well in Latin, I got the best mark in my school for my exams. I enjoy learning new languages too. But at my school, we were only offered French or Latin. From what I've heard, most people in my year hated French but everyone loved Latin. I know people are all 'oh it's a dead language' but in actual fact, it's helped my English too. I think the stories and everything are just really interesting.

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