Languages at School

[Chhotu uttam]

I also know Gujarati as it's my mother language

Kem Choh.

My neighbours are gujarati so I know some waht about it.

 

[Miss Panda]

When I was in school, I had 4 years of failing French

Bless, I feel your pain. I did one term of French and got a B+ and told my accent was lovely on my report card. I'm convinced the teacher mixed me up with someone else. Because I was the most useless of the the useless when it came to French. When you where in school? Are you home schooled now or something?

 

[The Catboy]

When I was in school, I had 4 years of failing French

Bless, I feel your pain. I did one term of French and got a B+ and told my accent was lovely on my report card. I'm convinced the teacher mixed me up with someone else. Because I was the most useless of the the useless when it came to French. When you where in school? Are you home schooled now or something?

I did awful myself. I got nothing right, not even the accent.
I graduated last year, I am no longer in school.

 

[Miss Panda]

When I was in school, I had 4 years of failing French

Bless, I feel your pain. I did one term of French and got a B+ and told my accent was lovely on my report card. I'm convinced the teacher mixed me up with someone else. Because I was the most useless of the the useless when it came to French. When you where in school? Are you home schooled now or something?

I did awful myself. I got nothing right, not even the accent.
I graduated last year, I am no longer in school.

And I say again

I swear I thought you wrote somewhere you were 15 or something. My apologies Sir.

edit
Yeah I don't believe I got the accent right either, like I said I think the teacher mixed me up with someone else.

 

[The Catboy]

When I was in school, I had 4 years of failing French

Bless, I feel your pain. I did one term of French and got a B+ and told my accent was lovely on my report card. I'm convinced the teacher mixed me up with someone else. Because I was the most useless of the the useless when it came to French. When you where in school? Are you home schooled now or something?

I did awful myself. I got nothing right, not even the accent.
I graduated last year, I am no longer in school.

And I say again

I swear I thought you wrote somewhere you were 15 or something. My apologies Sir.

Yeah, I made a blog about something that happened when I was about 15. I am almost 20 now, lol.

Also before high school I had 3 years of failing Spanish.

 

[stylow]

At school I learn 6 different languages: Dutch, English (UK), German, French, Latin and Old-Greek. Excluding Dutch, my mother language, that would be 5. I was wondering how many languages you GBAtempers would learn at school. So choose the languages you learn at school, but not your mother language.
If I am missing one or more langauges that you learn at school (except your mother language) please reply.

Exact the same

 

[PeregrinFig]

English as my native language, and Spanish.

 

[Master Mo]

-from class 5: English (mandatory until you finish school)

-either from class 7 (Secondary School): French, Spanish (selectable but not mandatory)
-or from class 7 (Grammar School): Latin, French, Spanish (you have to choose between one of them)

I personally learned English and French at school and the other two languages I know are my native languages. So basically I was taught just two languages in my time at school but tbh I´m completely fine with that, since in most countries you can communicate with people in English

 

[Holified 2x]

French or Spanish

 

[s4mid4re]

I'm Japanese but have lived my whole life in America, so both Japanese and English (US) are native to me. I've learned some Spanish through middle school (forgot most of it >_>) and am learning French right now, in highschool.

My school also offers Spanish and Japanese. I can communicate/interpret/type/read (not enough to read through a whole light novel, but enough to go through some Japanese games or manga) in Japanese, so I left it out of the equation when I chose the language to learn. I can't write in Japanese because I'm left handed (and as any other language, it was made for right handed people); some left handed people in Japan are forced to be ambidextrous just to write.

 

[SinHarvest24]

English, Spanish and French. Wished they had Japanese.......

 

[chris888222]

How I wish I could learn Japanese in my own school but you know... I'm just too dumb

I learnt it from a private center... and you have absolutely no idea HOW EXPENSIVE the course fees were.

 

[pistone]

1.English-forced
2.forced-but you can chose betwin these italian/french

also iv and learned the language of swearing -_- far more harder than any language known to man kind

 

[prowler]

French until Year 10 where you could drop it.

Out of the 4 years learning taking French, I only know how to count up to ten five.

 

[FAST6191]

what's the difference in uk and us?

US english is UK english but deformed. Pronunciation (easy to tell by just listening to a british guy and an american guy talking) and spelling (colours and stuff) change, maybe some grammar rules too.

The English people are taught is generally UK's, since it's the original one.

so an American and a British would still understand each other.

Definitely, it's only when you have extreme accents from UK and USA talking to each other there may be some difficulties. I don;t think there are any grammar differences, just spelling and pronunciation. Also some words (very few) mean different things or don't exist in one language. For example 'jam' in UK is the fruit stuff but in US it is called 'jelly' But 'jelly' in UK is wobbly, sweet gelatine stuff and in the US that is called 'jell-o'.

In fact, a full list of differences in words can be found here.

Well, after reading the list, I can clearly say that our English more of the US!!

I have no idea what are 'noughts and crosses', 'draughts', 'free phone' etc.

Talk about historical colonization...

I do enjoy learning the differences between American and English if only because it can be the source of endless amusement (twisting language is a favourite game of mine). I must admit though I did not know homely as describing a person (usually a woman) in American was a synonym for ugly (here it tends to mean plain) although it does make more than a few books I read over the years make more sense.

Just to be a bastard

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0HMMij5ag8[/youtube]
Note that is Scots English which depending on the person you are speaking too might constitute a proper dialect; there is another pretty much unintelligible language (to those that speak English) called Scots Gaelic which youtube should quite happily link up. I am not sure where I stand on the matter; there are more than a few Jock transplants around me at present but I was never taught it and it makes sense to my ear.

As for school I liked my Latin teacher even if the curriculum was awful (actually there seems to have been a direct correlation between teachers I liked and teachers that ignored the curriculum and taught the subject) but the others........ suffice it to say I gave up and taught myself for most of it although I pretty much only use French these days to watch sports (motorbikes and rugby frequently get upped in French) and console hacking news (there are some great French news sites).