Languages at school

edbarton · 10-14-2003, 12:06 PM

For any of you still at school it would be interesting to know what languages you learn

Are they the same as in the UK?

altyfc · 10-14-2003, 12:08 PM

These days I suspect it's PHP, VisualBasic, C++, etc.

In my day, it was French, Spanish, Latin and Greek...

Aaron

Bubo · 10-14-2003, 12:10 PM

As a point of interest:

University of Texas at Austin, in 1997, was accepting knowledge of the COBOL programming language as credit towards foreign language requirements. I had a friend who satisfied her foreign langauge requirements by taking credit by exams in COBOL.

Brian · 10-14-2003, 12:16 PM

The local schools do French & Spanish as the 2 main languages, and Latin as an elective. There are also special courses where you can learn more interesting languages.

edbarton · 10-14-2003, 12:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by altyfc

These days I suspect it's PHP, VisualBasic, C++, etc.

In my day, it was French, Spanish, Latin and Greek...

Aaron

lol

I used to do Spanish and French but my Spanish teacher sucked so now I only do French. (We are allowed to ditch subjects at GCSE but we have to keep 1 language)

Sharpie · 10-14-2003, 12:46 PM

When I was in high school, I took 4 years of French, and I still don't know any of it.

Our schooled offered Spanish and French, and also Chinese, but that was only for some people (all they did was watch a video every week).

Pretend · 10-14-2003, 01:01 PM

French, Spanish, and German.

Unfortunatly, I'm in Spanish.

I wanted to take German because it sounds like a cool language, I'm partly German, and some other reasons that I don't want to say because people would probably start to seriously distrespect me if I did.

edbarton · 10-14-2003, 01:50 PM

Yeah we have the option of German but I don't really intend going there that often

It must be weird to do French etc. in US because they are far away but then again I suppose in some ways not e.g. parts of Canada

Pretend · 10-14-2003, 02:05 PM

Spanish is usefull because there are so many Mexicans and spanish speaking people in the US. I mean, I know of at least 5 people that have moved from Mexico in the last couple years. (and these are just other students, so that means their family moved to.

)

I seriously want to take German but they wouldn't let me because it was full...bullshit it was full. They should've made another damn class. :mad:

GEWbert · 10-14-2003, 02:25 PM

French, Spanish, Chinese and Latin

I personally have been taking 6 years of latin. why? cause i'm almost done, thats why!!!

Pretend · 10-14-2003, 02:27 PM

Good reason Gandalf.

I want to learn latin to, it sounds pretty cool.

schmeg007 · 10-14-2003, 04:35 PM

At my school they'd teach the big European languages and then usually Japanese. I still don't understand why they wouldn't offer to teach Chinese...there are only over a billion chinese speakers...

Thanol · 10-14-2003, 04:56 PM

Same with my school, they're classes for Latin, German, Spanish, French and Japanese.

samer · 10-15-2003, 08:41 AM

Arabic,french,english !

Sharpie · 10-15-2003, 08:59 AM

Arabic? Oh, a school in Lebanon. I guess that would explain it.

I'm guessing your naturally Arabic?

GEWbert · 10-15-2003, 09:17 AM

I would love to learn German thou, such a kool language

**John Scott** · 10-15-2003, 09:21 AM

German is easy - just leave out most vowels, insert an absurd number of consonants. If in doubt, insert "tsch" and end it with "heit".

GEWbert · 10-15-2003, 09:23 AM

do you acutally know German or are you just kidding?

**John Scott** · 10-15-2003, 09:24 AM

LOL. I tried learning it once, but quit in disgust. It's has to be the most difficult language imaginable.

Devil's Angel · 10-15-2003, 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by JohnScott

German is easy - just leave out most vowels, insert an absurd number of consonants. If in doubt, insert "tsch" and end it with "heit".

Pretty much!

I'd like to learn German so I don't have to hunt down english translation lyrics for Rammstien

I learned French in HS and elementry school. Tho they were both different versions of it. In Elementry I learned the proper French and in HS i learned Acadian french (slanged version changed in Nova Scotia many many moons ago).

Japanese would be cool to learn too for all the anime I watch.