What Foreign language did/are you taking in High School?
 

Another thread got off topic and started talking about this, so I got curious. Personally I've taken 4 years of spanish and absolutely love it.

~Tom~

no hablo español...It's French II for me next school year. It was great because I had a 'French buddy' (a third year French student) on my team and we spoke whatever French we knew to each other. By the end of robotics season, my teacher had noticed that my French was improving and spoke French with more fluency that I ever had before. Thanks buddy!

I hated Spanish. After two years of it, I had enough of it. That was the class that always kept me off high honors. There are too many cojingations (regular, past, future, imperfect, reflexive, por & para, command, and probably a billion other conjingations that I totally forgot about) + all the vocab, and reading them in sentences like la charcha de azul "the shirt blue" Can't they just say the Blue Shirt. Anyways, I just sick of it. Anyways I wondered that I am most likely not going to use Spanish regularly, and + they are now working on voice translators. Like the IBM commercial with the girl talking to those executive in Russian about the lost package.

But hey some people love it. And it learning any kind language will most likely come in handy one day. For example it would have been good if you could communicate with the Canada teams in French instead of English. If you could speak Portuguese, (very similar to Spanish) than you can communicate with the Brazilian team.

So it has its advantages.

I took three years of Spanish. My mom teaches Spanish and really wanted me to. I live in Florida and SO many people speak it down here that it's nice to know it. I agree that it is really confusing, but I didn't mind it too much (although you may notice that I only took up to three..and my school offers Spanish 1-6 and both of the APs). I also knew it's a good thing to have if you want any sort of a customer-service job down here (that and many people who come through the ER where I volunteer only know Spanish and I can help up to a point in translating for them).

~Angela who hasn't taken Spanish since freshman year

I took Spanish last year, but didn't have room for it this year. This coming year, I have Spanish 2 set.

Estoy El Sacerdote Grande!

I took french 3 of my 4 years in HS. I took it instead of spanish, because I didn't want to look like an idiot in front of all the native spanish speakers at my school. I really like french, and I plan to continue taking french courses.

But i took Latin my freshman year...

I took Latin.

My sister on the other hand, is taking (or has taken) Latin, Spanish, and ASL.

In middle school I had a half year spanish/half year french (one of those intro courses) and then advanced French I.

In high school, they forced me into advanced French II...but by the end of that I had had quite enough. So I tried Latin I my sophomore year.....then just gave up and took tech drafting the year after ;)

~ lora

I was wondering if any other schools besides mine offer ASL

~Angela who was going to take ASL but figured her mom would get mad if she didn't take Spanish

in middle school i took german for 2 years, i about failed it. passed with a D-. in high school i took spanish for 2 years. i about failed it. passed with a D-. so to me all foreign languages SUCK!!!!

As far as colleges go, RIT offers ASL because of NTID (National Technical Institute for the Deaf). So it's nice to have both hearing and deaf people on campus to be able to communicate with each other.

My 4th grade teacher taught us quite a bit of it, but unfortunately I've forgotten just about all of it except the alphabet....

~ lora

Chinese
 

The two years I have been in high school I have taken Chinese. Though it is an interesting language, I can't remember anything I learn. Always got a B for my quarter grade, but always got a D- for the exams (mid-term, final).

My friend is hard of hearing and she has taught me quiet a bit of ASL. It was always funny to sign to her across the room, making all these big silent gestures followed by sudden bursts of LOUD laughters then having people look at us like we were crazy. She will be attending RIT in the fall of 2002 to study mechanical engineering. Although her school didn't have a robotics team, she got really interested when i told her about it. I hope she'll look more into FIRST and possibly get involved with a team there.