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

[Pamela]

i'm going into my 5th year of French next year... i hate the language, but love the country, I hope I go back soon

[Karl]

Linguam Latina magnum bona est. Quod, Multi Homines non dicent. Mihi magistra non compis mentis erat. I also took English, which is a foreign language since I live in the United States.

-Karl, who probably mangled the grammer in that post, and who stole the "add a little explanatory clause at the end of your signature" idea.

P.S: French inhales audibly! There's a reason Rome conquered the Gauls, they were too busy sticking random vowels into stuff. Now, aplease excuse me before the French-speakers lynch me.

[Manoel]

As a foreign language, I've been taking English since like, 2nd grade (I'm at 10th now), and Spanish from 2nd grade to 5th grade, and now this year... Which is a bad thing, since I don't like Spanish very much, and never had a good teacher. And before someone asks, YES, English is a foreign language (Brazil, baby! )


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[Karl]

Originally posted by Manoel
As a foreign language, I've been taking English since like, 2nd grade (I'm at 10th now), and Spanish from 2nd grade to 5th grade, and now this year... Which is a bad thing, since I don't like Spanish very much, and never had a good teacher. And before someone asks, YES, English is a foreign language (Brazil, baby! )
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Hey, mind if I ask how to say "Excuse me, (sir/maam), where is the restroom" in Portugese?

[Manoel]

Originally posted by Karl


Hey, mind if I ask how to say "Excuse me, (sir/maam), where is the restroom" in Portuguese?

It is "Com licença, onde fica o banheiro?"... I don't know if "ç" will show up on your computers, since you don't have that letter. It sounds like an Spanish "z"
Oh, and no need for sir/ma'm, "excuse me" is polite enough...


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[Jessica Boucher]

Wooooo! French V is AWESOME!

Esp if you have a cool teacher thats an arts/humanities/news buff. We would watch movies every week, and then go into The pre/post WWII theatre...like "La Cantatrice Chauve" (Bald Headed Soprano, by Ionesco) and "Huis Clos" (No Exit, awesome story about 3 people in Hell). That teacher was the only one who could convince you to have enough guts to attempt a critical film review of "Madame Bovary" in French (another awesome book).

This year I'll be taking French 2nd semester & eventually be taking Japanese.

-Jessica B

"L'enfer, c'est les autres" (Hell, it is the others, Huis Clos, 1945-something)

[Joe Ross]

Originally posted by littlefish180


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

Sign Language isn't offerered at the school, but my sister is taking it at a community college and getting credit for it.

[Lora Knepper]

Originally posted by Anne Lam


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.

Anne,

Well, if the people heading to RIT this year, combined with last year's crew are any indication, RIT's team will be around for a good many more years to come If she wants any info, you can pass on my email lknepper@mail.rit.edu and Matt Leese would be happy to answer any questions too I'm sure. I hope to see her on campus in 2002

~ lora
Tigerbolt Homepage - still there but being renovated!

[Matt Leese]

There should be a team at RIT well into the future. We're going to try and be more visible this year (on the RIT campus) than we were last year. So hopefully we shouldn't be hard to find. If anyone ever has trouble finding us, inquire with the College of Engineering (not one of the departments, the whole thing; they know about us).

Matt

[mike o'leary]

i started french in 1st grade...im now fluent in it and somehow managed to skip french ap...dont really know how i did that but i went from french iv to french v, even though french ap's supposed to in between the two.

[Carolyn Duncan]

Taking AP after five is a much better way to go. I took AP first and regreted it. The exams inhale audibly.

[mike o'leary]

no im not taking ap
and the schools class description thing says that french 5 is for student who complete french ap in theyre junior year.

[Carolyn Duncan]

That's dumb. The whole point of AP is to get college credit for the language. It's supposed to be the final class. Who'd want to take more of the language after the AP?

[mike o'leary]

i dunno? if youre in french ap when youre a junior its probably cuz you like the language though

[Carolyn Duncan]

Originally posted by mike o'leary
i dunno? if youre in french ap when youre a junior its probably cuz you like the language though

Have you ever taken an AP? They will really turn you off to a class you may have really liked.