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Foreign Language shouldn't be mandatory.
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Foreign Language shouldn't be mandatory.

I'm not sure about your school, but in mine you have to take at least 2 years in a foreign language class. I think its the stupidest thing ever.

1.You don't actually learn the language. The class consists of everyone using Google translate and reciting songs in front the class.
2.You learn the same thing both years. The schedule for both classes is exactly the same thing, except there is A LITTLE more stuff in Spanish2.
3.No one remembers the language. You will come out not knowing how to read or speak Spanish and will forget most of the grammar rules because you will have never used it afterwords.

Therefore it is a complete waste of time, I don't why we should waste two years worth of electives on this completely pointless class. The only way to learn a language properly is to go to a country that speaks it, not recite songs in Spanish solely based on pronunciation.
01-30-2012 03:17 AM
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RE: Foreign Language shouldn't be mandatory.

You can actually learn the language if you try. Whether or not anyone remembers it is if they want to apply it to their life or not. You don't need to go to another country, everytime you say something you think in the back of your head on how to saw it in spanish.
01-30-2012 04:32 AM
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RE: Foreign Language shouldn't be mandatory.

It should be optional, and there should be more boring memorization (that helps you ACTUALLY talk) than stupid culture and retarded, useless words (like dwarf, weird shit like that).

I actually use my Spanish when I go to my sister's place in New York. I like talking to the street people, I talked to a thrift store owner and it was a good time.
01-30-2012 04:35 AM
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RE: Foreign Language shouldn't be mandatory.

I want to learn German, but my teachers suck. I'm just gonna grab some Rossetta Stone when I'm older and not knowing German is really bugging me.

I'll ship you the Spanish version! Haha

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01-30-2012 04:43 AM
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RE: Foreign Language shouldn't be mandatory.

(01-30-2012 04:43 AM)dirtbikemike204 Wrote:  I want to learn German, but my teachers suck. I'm just gonna grab some Rossetta Stone when I'm older and not knowing German is really bugging me.

I'll ship you the Spanish version! Haha

Same here, except I doubt I'd ever afford Rosetta Stone, all my German classes seem to be about are writing down a few German words and their translation, then doing a wordsearch containing those words. This process is too slow and ineffective for my liking, and if I was learning German from scratch through school alone I would not start of with "Weinachtsmann" or whatever unimportant crap words they can find.
01-30-2012 05:40 AM
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RE: Foreign Language shouldn't be mandatory.

Just start by reading simple texts, then move on to bigger fish.

It's crucial that you also hear the language and get used to it. Watch YouTube vids and stuff like that, it helps a great deal.

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RE: Foreign Language shouldn't be mandatory.

(01-30-2012 03:17 AM)fish20 Wrote:  I'm not sure about your school, but in mine you have to take at least 2 years in a foreign language class. I think its the stupidest thing ever.

Si, porque esta no usar aprendiendo un segundo idioma. Nunca lo usaras en tu vida. Nunca. Rolleyes

P.S. Yo no use Google Translate escribir este messaje. Enfades SS?
01-30-2012 05:57 AM
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RE: Foreign Language shouldn't be mandatory.

(01-30-2012 05:57 AM)Aya Wrote:  Yo no use Google Translate escribir este messaje. Enfades SS?

Apparently it's really easy for teachers to tell if it's not the language they're teaching you.

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(01-13-2012 10:37 AM)UnschoolShqiponjë Wrote:  Mike you deserve an SS medal. Here, be proud:
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Congrats for doing something I never had the balls to do.
If you have kids, save them from the bullshit you are forced to go through.
(01-25-2012 05:36 AM)UnschoolShqiponjë Wrote:  Balls of steel re-awarded. 
(02-07-2012 03:22 PM)flann Wrote:  Balls of Tungsten, now.

I found a picture for tungsten balls
http://bit.ly/xqd1zk

(02-14-2012 03:17 PM)Maelstrom Wrote:  Your balls are denser than white dwarf star matter.
(03-13-2012 08:27 PM)M3116 Wrote:  Balls of steel re-re-reawarded Nutter

(05-14-2013 03:01 PM)Prince Darkstar Wrote:  Dirtbikemike is the only guy I know of on here who won an argument with a teacher.
01-30-2012 05:59 AM
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RE: Foreign Language shouldn't be mandatory.

No classes should be mandatory at all

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RE: Foreign Language shouldn't be mandatory.

(01-30-2012 05:59 AM)dirtbikemike204 Wrote:  
(01-30-2012 05:57 AM)Aya Wrote:  Yo no use Google Translate escribir este messaje. Enfades SS?

Apparently it's really easy for teachers to tell if it's not the language they're teaching you.

Que?
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RE: Foreign Language shouldn't be mandatory.

It's the same in college. A lot of degrees require 3 or 4 semesters of a second language. But the first two years of language classes are terrible. No one learns anything. That's why most people who major in spanish are native spanish speakers. Because the non-native speakers have to basically just study like crazy on their own to even have a chance. Not that they should bother, though, because you can't do anything with a spanish BA.

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RE: Foreign Language shouldn't be mandatory.

(01-30-2012 05:59 AM)dirtbikemike204 Wrote:  
(01-30-2012 05:57 AM)Aya Wrote:  Yo no use Google Translate escribir este messaje. Enfades SS?

Apparently it's really easy for teachers to tell if it's not the language they're teaching you.

So the fuck what? It's not cheating to look up words on your own.

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