second language at school? Options

[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.

[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

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. Yay! haha

[*Weird addiction*]

Well French is my FIRST language at school so i'm taking English and Dutch...

[*tweeak*]

I take French .

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.

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]

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?

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*]

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.

ahahahahaha... mr. lopez XD

yeah, i had him for a trimester in 7th grade. but i speak spanish, so it dosent matter

[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*]

Do you get an AP diploma after completing the entire program?
And.. you're taking AP and IB courses? o.O

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 ...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

[*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

[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.

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.

[Teesa]

Oooh, you're in the IB program as well? Me, too I'm in my senior year and currently taking French 6. I've been taking it since the sixth grade and I'm really proud of myself because although I am not fluent, I can understand most of it and speak it well =]

[*disco infiltrator*]

Je parle le francais, merci beaucoup. Je peut parler seulement un peu, mais je suis forte en francais.

I'm a year ahead in French, thank you very much. (I didn't wanna rack my brain on how to say that..)

[racoons > you]

im taking two languages, Spanish at AS Level, and German at GCSE

[*Weird addiction*]

Je parle le francais, merci beaucoup. Je peut parler seulement un peu, mais je suis forte en francais.

I'm a year ahead in French, thank you very much. (I didn't wanna rack my brain on how to say that..)

Aww few errors, it's "français", "je peux"... and "je peux seulement parler un peu" it's hard to notice, i still make those kind of errors.

And for the last translation, it's : je suis un an en avance en français, merci beaucoup"

[Levy2k6]

lol.

i took german for 3 years..

Sprechen Sie Deutsche? (is that right or am i wrong?) lol.

[Archana]

Spanish.
Started in 2nd grade, i'm in 8th, goes up to 12th.

[sm0kinm0nky]

Espanol

[Spirited Away]

Aww few errors, it's "français", "

à mon avis, la cédille et le reste des accents ne sont pas necessaires quand on écrit sans cérémonie. c'est trop d'ennui, non? mais je pourrais avoir tort. Ah, j'oublie que cB a besoin de grammaire être appropriée tout le temps, si c'est anglais ou français.

Je sais ma grammaire est horrible aussi, mais je m'en fou.

[PinkTrash]

.. Did you use a translator? If you didn't, I truly envy you.

[SillyCourtney]

I take French. It isn't too bad, I'm pretty good at it. =)

[iflondonburns]

I took italian in high school for two years. I would of taken it longer but at the time I wasn't interested in school. I also took it in college, i'm a freshman right now, but dropped out the 3rd week. I couldn't stand the teacher. It's something petty but oh well.

I can read italian better than I can speak. It depends. My aunt lives in italy, moved there in her 20's, so i know enough just by her which she taught me when I was just four. It's not that hard but if you have no interest in it you get exactly what you give - nothing.

[*disco infiltrator*]

.....I use an English keyboard and I have not memorized the symbols. There's a lot of symbols I didn't use because..I..can't...

I know they're supposed to be there, but...I can't make them. So..oh well.

[ChasingLife87]

woot! people take german!

I've taken german for four 1/2 years (nine semesters??!), will be majoring in it in college.

1 1/2 yr of Spanish (3 semesters).

1 year of Hebrew (2 semesters).

Life goal of speaking seven languages fluently

[Soleil]

English is the second language, then theres Italian, and Spanish (French is the major language.) Ive taken english and spanish.

[Winter]

I'm taking Bahasa Malaysia. It's compulsary. :(

[nezumi]

Well in France we all have to choose two languages in junior high school; first english and then a second language (usually german or spanish).

[*Weird addiction*]

à mon avis, la cédille et le reste des accents ne sont pas necessaires quand on écrit sans cérémonie. c'est trop d'ennui, non? mais je pourrais avoir tort. Ah, j'oublie que cB a besoin de grammaire être appropriée tout le temps, si c'est anglais ou français.

Je sais ma grammaire est horrible aussi, mais je m'en fou. 

Weeeee, tu as aussi des fautes! haha... mais c'est normal. Crois moi, la cédille est importante pour tout. C'est obligé. Si tu ne la mets pas, ça va plus parce que ca donnera "frankais" haha, tu comprends? ou si tu écris "a la maison" au lieu d'à la maison ça va pas non plus, pcq "a" est le verbe conjugué d'avoir au passé.

I've been speaking french for 3 years now, i study in french actually and i still have few errors...

[dahoonpride]

arabic

[xtine_xox]

I take Portuguese, even though I am Portuguese. I didn't know how to speak/write/read it very well until now. I still mess up speaking it, but writing and reading I do fine. I understand everything in Portuguese. I'm good like that ^_^

Ola, chamo-me Christine. Eu tenho quinze anos de idade e eu gosto muito de musica. Eu gosta de cantar e dancar.

Translation- Hello, my name is Christine. I am 15 years old and I like music a lot. I like to sing and dance.

There are some accents missing but I was to lazy to put them in Lol.

This is my fourth year in Portuguese.

[racoons > you]

know what's worrying?

between us, lorna and i, who are 2nd and 3rd est at spanish in our grade, could not manage to do a test on the present tense on friday.

god knows what went wrong there

[*tweeak*]

I can do present tense. It just can't figure out what the hell the differecne between preterite and imperfect is. And now we have past participle things...I'm just confused. I'm going to fail my test Wednesday. ...again. I have the lowest grade in my Spanish class. Today I reverted back to last year where I was off thinking about something els,e I got called on unexpectedly, and had no idea what the answer was. I sat and said uhhhhhhh. I appeared intelligent.

[racoons > you]

^
you ALWAYS appear intelligent.

anyway, if you want, i can giv eyou international tutoring

[silver-rain]

The preterite and imperfect is hard... I still have trouble with it and I'm in AP Spanish Lit.

[*tweeak*]

No thanks, unless that includes flying over to take my test for me.

And I don't appreciate your sarcasm. I said some very profound things at lunch today. My table just didn't appreciate them.

[racoons > you]

when hav eyou ever appreciated my sarcasm?

[*tweeak*]

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend"

Which reminds me, Desperate Housewives

[racoons > you]

ooh is the new season on over there?

that means we will get it soon *orgasm*

although, i have to sya, i am headover heals in love with Lost

[*tweeak*]

Yep, second episode was on last night

I still haven't seen more than 10 minutes of Lost. My language arts class scorns me.

[racoons > you]

ooh, goodie! tel lme what happens and die

and you DESERVE THE SCORN!!!!!!!!!

Lost is the source of all things good, and what is more important, an EXCELLENT way to distract Mr Greening when he wants to discuss Thomas Hardy...

btw, lol... i just realized that i got onlin ebirefly to check my email 2 and a half hours ago, and still havent mad eit to hotmail

[*tweeak*]

mmm stopping

[racoons > you]

indeed. ok, we shall stop

*note maturity*

[JlIaTMK]

Spanish....

Third, Japanese....

soon to be forth, French... =]


[Yeah, I'm a language dork, wanna fight about it?]

[*tweeak*]

JOrdan, let me PM you

[JlIaTMK]

Okay, okay.... it's pm-able now.... =]

But you guys need to give me more inbox space >=D

[Spirited Away]

Weeeee, tu as aussi des fautes! haha... mais c'est normal. Crois moi, la cédille est importante pour tout. C'est obligé. Si tu ne la mets pas, ça va plus parce que ca  donnera "frankais" haha, tu comprends? ou si tu écris "a la maison" au lieu d'à la maison ça va pas non plus, pcq "a" est le verbe conjugué d'avoir au passé.

I've been speaking french for 3 years now, i study in french actually and i still have few errors...

Oui, je suis d'accord et je comprends l'importance de la cédille et de l'accent grave quand on écrit formellement, mais je pense... (how does it go)... que tout le monde peut savoir la difference entres une preposition et une verbe. "Il a une maison" et "elle reste à la maison" sont évidente. En tous cas, vous avez raison, j'espère seulement que nous laissons les "proper [accents]" en classe.

Et trois ans? Moi, j'avais étudié depuis sept ans, c'est mon minor. Évidemment, ma grammaire a besoin d'aide. Racontez-moi de les fautes que vous avez vu, s'il vous plaît. For the sake of practice

[nezumi]

Oui, je suis d'accord et je comprends l'importance de la cédille et de l'accent grave quand on écrit formellement, mais je pense... (how does it go)... que tout le monde peut savoir la difference entres une preposition et une verbe. "Il a une maison" et "elle reste à la maison" sont évidente. En tous cas, vous avez raison, j'espère seulement que nous laissons les "proper [accents]" en classe.

Et trois ans? Moi, j'avais étudié depuis sept ans, c'est mon minor. Évidemment, ma grammaire a besoin d'aide. Racontez-moi de les fautes que vous avez vu, s'il vous plaît. For the sake of practice 

I'm french, so i fix this up

Trois ans? Moi j'étudie depuis sept ans, c'est ma mineur. Evidemment, j'ai besoin d'aide en grammaire. Dites-moi les fautes que vous voyez, s'il vous plaît. Juste pour la pratique.

Et en effet un français comprend tout à fait même s'il n'y a pas d'accents et de cédille, cependant c'est incorrect à l'écrit.

[Spirited Away]

I'm french, so i fix this up

J'ai oublié de mettre des citations pour le mot "minor" comme "proper", merci de me rappelez du mot. Avant quelqu'un nous dit que nous sommes "off topic", j'ai une question, a favor rather. Si je fais un nouveau "topic" dans le "homework forum" pour pratiquer français, est-ce-que vous m'aideriez? Merci mille fois en avance. En classe française, je peux étudier du gouvernement, de la culture de la France, etcetera, mais j'ai ennui toujours avec la grammaire en raison du manque de pratique.

[*Weird addiction*]

Tu ne me comprends pas, je voulais dire que ça fait 3 ans que j'étudie en français. C'est la langue que je parle à l'école, avec mes copines et copains. Je parle seulement l'anglais à la maison...et avec quelques amis anglophone. Sinon, c'est le français 24 sur 24.

Oui, Nazumi a raison. Un FRANCOPHONE (pas nécessairement un français) peut comprendre une phrase sans les accents ou la cédille. Mais quand c'est écrite, c'est faut. C'est une grave erreur.

Et oui fae, je peux t'aider pour tes travaux. Il n'y a pas de problème. Tu auras besoin de Nazumi aussi parce qu'il est français et je crois qu'il le parle depuis sa naissance .

[nezumi]

Oui je suis française , c'est ma langue maternelle et j'ai toujours vécu en France.

Et oui, évidemment je serais ravie d'aider, je voudrais être professeur de français!

Weird addiction, tu parles super bien français! ça ne fait que 3 ans que tu le pratiques? wow! Et moi aussi je fais comme toi, je ne parle qu'en anglais avec une amie pour m'entraîner.

[*Weird addiction*]

Ha! Tu es une fille, haha. Je m'excuse. J'habite en Belgique. J'ai eu 15 heures par semaine pendant 10 mois. Et puis je me suis fait des amis et voilà, je maîtrise bien la langue. Lol. Oh, je m'appelle Sandra.

[*tweeak*]

Considering how limited my knowlegde of French is (really, very. I've never taken a class of it), I can understand a remarkablely large amount of that

[racoons > you]

^

i just thought that.... between the tone, occasional english comments, and words similar to spanish, and a small knowledge of basic french, i feel smugly self satisfied (for a change )

[*mipadi*]

Ich weiß, daß Französisch blöd ist.

[nptsprtz15]

spanish//nd i cnt understand my teacher cuz she barely speaks english...

[`SWTWiNKLE3YES]

im currently taking spanish

[mocassinsx29]

I'm taking 3rd year Spanish and 1st year Latin. Definitely not fluent in Latin, but I guess I could have like a "dialogue" in Spanish. But again, definitely not fluent.

[Spirited Away]

YAY! a reason to stay with cB!!!

I'll start a topic in the homework forum. Please visit often french speakers




Done.

This post has been edited by Spirited Away: Oct 4 2005, 05:27 PM

[racoons > you]

can we have one for spanish???

[Spirited Away]

I don't see why not.. it's for practicing the language right? For getting better grades in foreign language classes

So long as there's no inappropriate language, spam, member bashing, I think this will be allowed.

[racoons > you]

the french and spanish language threads are now up in the homework section!