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PinkTrash
Who takes a second english [besides English] at school? If so, what language? Spanish? French? other? Also, when you started and is it hard to catch on to the language and are you able to speak fluently yet? :)
Or, are you in some type of extended or immersion program?

Just wondering. I take french (Canadian) and I am currently in IB, so the french has gotten a lot more intense this year. I can speak fluently in simple ways, but I know theres a lot more to learn.. I've just been having difficulty lately with all these french immersion kids in my french classes :/
RiC3xBoy
I take Spanish.(not mexican)
salcha
Spanish III
YES, I'M DONE WITH REQUIREMENTS AFTER THIS. (I'm soooo not taking AP Spanish)

Eh, I think Spanish is fairly easy. You just need to get grammar concepts down. Oh, I started Spanish1a in the seventh grade, Spanish1b eighth, Spanish II last year (freshman year), and as a sophomore, Spanish III.
stella04
im taking spanish I. its been only a couple of weeks, but i can greet, say sentences, and write paragraphs. :D i think my school's fast-paced though. oh and im viet, not mexican. so yeah. its not that hard. i heard french is harder.
silver-rain
I'm in AP Spanish Literature, and it's hard (because you have to read books in Spanish and understand them and talk about them). I'm pretty good in spanish, but I wouldn't exactly say that I'm fluent either (did horribly on the AP...)
luvzcha
I take French which is really hard
Spirited Away
This is my 7th year of taking French. happy.gif
EddieV
I took Spanish in High School
mipadi
I'm in my ninth semester of studying German. I don't think it's incredibly hard to pick up the language as long as you practice it as much as you can.
FreeStickers
IB German V (been taking German since 7th grade)

It's no hard, because I already speak it. It seems hard for a couple other people, though.
takingbacksandy
i took spanish up to spanish 2 then i quit. i hated spanish. then i took japanese, i didn't like the teacher much so i quit that. i always have a problem with foreign language teachers for some reason.
incoherent
i take spanish. the first year was so easy, but now in spanish 2 were condrigating (sp?) verbs and its really confusing and hard.

if it were my decision...everyone wouldnt have to have 2 credits to get into college. the whole world just needs to pick a language biggrin.gif

no offense to the diversity...it'd just make it so much easier.
OhXiet_ItzDonnA
I take Spanish. I'm in Sanish II but it's my freshman year is high school. I was in Honors Spanish in middle school and it seem kinda tough because I dont understand the questions and everything but I think it's getting a lil easier for me now like whenever we have to write sentences in Spanish, my homegirl said they was all right. _smile.gif Yay! haha
Weird addiction
Well French is my FIRST language at school so i'm taking English and Dutch...
tweeak
QUOTE(brownsugar08 @ Sep 30 2005, 7:16 AM)
I take French _smile.gif.

I think your IB program might be similar to our AP program.

We can take AP french until our senior year, where you can take Honors French 5 or AP French 5. French is automatically an honors class here, once you get past the second year.

I'm taking Pre-AP French III this year. And yes it has gotten intense. It's one of my hardest classes now.
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It's not. At Norcross, we have AP and IB (we're on of only about 20 schools in GA with IB, and the only one except the newly added middle schools with it in Gwinnett). For languag arts, the curriculums are compatible, so i can take the Ib and AP tests for it this year, but it's not really the same. My AP history is entirely different than the IB one, though. Full diploma IB is a whole lot more work than AP, especially since AP isn't offered in every class, and doesn't require you to take more than there's room for in the schedule.

Anyway, yeah, I'm taking Spanish, and honestly I hate it. I'm in Spanish 3 now (though it should be 4...), but I'm not going to continue on next year, because I refuse to take AP or IB Spanish. There's full diploma IB kids in my Spanish class, because it doesn't separate from gifted/honors until Spanish 4

We took the Georgia High School Graduation Writing yesterday (pointless and easy), and on the directions, they had to include that we must write in prose and in English with no rap. Who the hell would write a graduation essay in another language, let alone rap, when you're trying to prove that you're literate in English?
jooleeah
I take French. It's a beautiful language.
2L0VERLY
im taking fillipino right now & its easy & i can kinda speak fluently =] our teacher is mean though =[ but im gonna start taking italian..i think it might be a little difficult.
jennyjenny
I'm taking Spanish. There is also French, but I chose spanish.
I was required to choose a language in 7th grade so I chose spanish. 7th and 8th grade was Spanish I. I'm on Spanish II right now. It's hard for me because I can't concentrate on this.
ghjgfkgfk
i am taking french next year. french is the language of love and sex.
mai_z
well everyone has to take at least 1 year of french, but i'm done that. I take chinese outside of regular school.
BarreL
Spanish II Honours .

Spanish I in Freshman year
Spanish II Honours in Sophmore year .

yep....after this year its no longer required
so SCORE to the MILLIONS

** dances to La Bamba and La Cucaracha (sp?) **
lilliannnn
This is my fourth year taking Spanish and I wouldn't say I'm "fluent" in it but I'm pretty good. It helps that my best friend is from South America so I've had 8 years of experience.
PinkTrash
QUOTE(tweeak @ Sep 30 2005, 2:19 PM)
It's not. At Norcross, we have AP and IB (we're on of only about 20 schools in GA with IB, and the only one except the newly added middle schools with it in Gwinnett). For languag arts, the curriculums are compatible, so i can take the Ib and AP tests for it this year, but it's not really the same. My AP history is entirely different than the IB one, though.  Full diploma IB is a whole lot more work than AP, especially since AP isn't offered in every class, and doesn't require you to take more than there's room for in the schedule.

Anyway, yeah, I'm taking Spanish, and honestly I hate it. I'm in Spanish 3 now (though it should be 4...), but I'm not going to continue on next year, because I refuse to take AP or IB Spanish. There's full diploma IB kids in my Spanish class, because it doesn't separate from gifted/honors until Spanish 4

We took the Georgia High School Graduation Writing yesterday (pointless and easy), and on the directions, they had to include that we must write in prose and in English with no rap. Who the hell would write a graduation essay in another language, let alone rap, when you're trying to prove that you're literate in English?
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Do you get an AP diploma after completing the entire program?
And.. you're taking AP and IB courses? o.O
BOOGERSHAHA
french! well i used to. i took AP french language in my junior year and i'm a senior now so i dropped it. and yeah i won't think i'll study french in college so....uh huh
xcaitlinx
im in Spanish II Accelerated...freshmen year. ive been taking spanish since elementary school.
Kenado
I started my first year of german German 1, I took a quarter of german last year to get a feel of it to see if I wanted to take in 8th grade. It's very easy if you practice I can even say some tongue twisters, but there are a lot of froms of one word you have to be memorize.
danielle_x3
i take latin. it was required T___T
b0st0ngrl
I'm in French II but I plan on taking it up to French IV :D
I want to speak it fluently one day, so I'll probably take some French classes in college, too.
not_your_average
I'm in Spanish 1 right now, and it's pretty fun. It really depends on how the teacher is and how he or she teaches the material.
ANG33ZY
I'm taking Italian.
EmmalieV
I take french as a second language since I live in a spanish country.
yummy_delight
Spanish 3, bitches.

I hate Frenchies. jk.
BOLIN_Vee
i've been taking spanish for 8 years (since kindergarden)

but the spanish programs that count for high school, start at 6th grade, so this is my 2nd year of spanish that COUNTS hmph
Aoiro
Sadly, our school doesn't have language clases anymore.
Two years ago, we had Spanish and French.
I was so excited!
But then they cancelled French.
Then last year, they cancelled Spanish because we had no teacher to teach it to us.
And besides the fact that many people thought our Spanish teacher was gay.
lolita kitty
QUOTE(Blue-Chan @ Sep 30 2005, 7:26 PM)
Sadly, our school doesn't have language clases anymore.
Two years ago, we had Spanish and French.
I was so excited!
But then they cancelled French.
Then last year, they cancelled Spanish because we had no teacher to teach it to us.
And besides the fact that many people thought our Spanish teacher was gay.

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ahahahahaha... mr. lopez XD

yeah, i had him for a trimester in 7th grade. but i speak spanish, so it dosent matter whistling.gif
WindSorcerous
I took spanish for 4 years...I hardly remember anything and my last year taking it was...Last Year! LOL Yeah, obviously my school sucks in that department...and...I just really don't care about it. I didn't really have good teachers anyway...except one, but she was my last teacher and by that time, the damage was done LoL. I was so confused I passed the class with an A, but I don't remember anything. Doesn't matter though, I'll never need it.
tweeak
QUOTE(PinkTrash @ Sep 30 2005, 4:46 PM)
Do you get an AP diploma after completing the entire program?
And.. you're taking AP and IB courses? o.O
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Well, you can't actually recieve an AP diploma, because the way our schedules work we can't even take like any AP sciences in place of other science- you can't take AP physics or chem until you've already completed the class, so it's fairly impractical. It's still college credit and such, though. And yeah, I'm taking AP, IB, gifted, and honors classes, so I'm not actually getting a full diploma of anything, really. IB diploma is way more work than I can handle, and considering my math grades form last year, I don't think I'd be applicable anyway
digital.fragrance
French - not in the IB, but it nonetheless is picking up. I can speak fluently in small ways... not the eally complicated stuff. Just now mastering the indirect/direct object speech.
totallyxticxtac
i take français xD
xmkaex
i take spanish uno biggrin.gif ...its fairly easy but you just have to grasps some concepts...and ur off on ur way
Funkadelic.Kiss
French right now & when i get to Grade 9 I'll probably take Jap. French Im good at but I want Jap 'cause it sounds totally cool. Or Vietnam rolleyes.gif
stephinika
i took spanish in grades 8-11 but i stopped this year, in grade 12.
suddenly she
spanish 2h - it's my freshman year.
i literally paid no attention when i started in 7th grade and nearly failed, so i have more trouble than most people.
Nicolatofu
I'm taking spanish this semester. Doing very well in it if i do say so myself. I have a 99
berry_lickable
im taking spanish II right now. and hell no i cant say it fluently sad.gif
misoshiru
i took mandarin...up till this year.

we have ap and ib courses too. so some people can do the ib diploma and others, ap scholar. i'm going for ap scholar with distinction, which was why i had to drop mandarin to put space in for my other classes.
PinkTrash
o.O my school only offers french.
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IB diploma is way more work than I can handle, and considering my math grades form last year, I don't think I'd be applicable anyway

Tell me about it.. Everybody drops out after first semester. I heard a lot of people failed math too, or are failing it.
sprezzatura
Taking Spanish. I have to take a foreign langauge for IB.
Looow
Spanish for Spanish Speakers. (The fluent)

Wheee.
Gigi
I'm taking Mandarin. It's extremely easy; the teacher's sort of a bitch but you can hand in homework weeks late and she still goes "Thank you." I can speak pretty fluently. I have very good memory when it comes to Pinyin.

The school board made us take French (Canadian) until 8th grade. I was okay at that, though everything about French annoyed the hell out of me, so I quit in grade 9 and took Mandarin.
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