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What languages are you studying?
Latin (+1) 4 (6.6%)
English* 14 (23%)
French (+5) 10 (16.4%)
Italian 2 (3.3%)
Spanish (+6) 11 (18%)
German 12 (19.7%)
Russian 2 (3.3%)
Other 6 (9.8%)
Total Votes: 61
school languages; what languages r u taking in school?
Topic Started: Oct 1 2005, 03:27 AM (444 Views)
Matt Spike
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lol, i was just curious
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Jay Thomas 3♂
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*shudder* French and it's the worest. We've been stuck with the head of French for 2 years now.
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Michelle Halvoc 2♀
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The only language option we have is French. And it's an option, not mandatory. But I have to take it and it SUCKS! I personally wanna learn Spanish really bad!!
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Leah Broomsticks
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I wanna take french but we only have spanish as an option! it's not bad. ( i hope my spanish teacher is not on this site, he's a hp freak, like me.)
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Michelle Halvoc 2♀
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Haha, thats funny.
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Matt Spike
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lol, im the only one who takes latin...lol
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Aqua Flory 3♀
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latin? wow we have 2 choices spanish and french, even though I know spanish I'm in Spanish speakers different from spanish classes cause in spanish classes u r LEARNING spanish and in spanish speakers u know spanish (just telling u)
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ϻ April Masters


i dont start taking any classes until next year (10th grade) and all we have is spanish and since you have to have like 3 foreign language credits to graduate- im stuck with taking it for a long time (ill probably take it in college too) i really want to take french though, but oh well
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Gedeon Grindser


spanish is a really easy language. im taking french but i know spanish and as u can tell english.
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Ronald Binx
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I'm not really learning a language.... Although, I do speak Gibberish, Pig Latin, and Skeet (sp?)
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Aqua Flory 3♀
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wats Gibberish, Pig latin? never heard of them........
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Jordan May


Im only in gr 7. In our school, actually all of Canada we have to take French from gr 4-9. You know we have two official languages so..
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Ronald Binx
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Gibberish is something like:

Whgagat igis yougour nagame? (I don't think this is right!)

And Pig Latin is:

hat-w'ay s-i'ay our-y'ay ame-n'ay?

Skeet:

Whatskee iskee yourskee nameskee?
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Aidan Connors 7♂
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^ lol

In my school, we have to have two foreign language credits to graduate with an Advanced Diploma. So I took Spanish. It was my only option at the time, but now we have French. Personally, I want to learn Italian and Latin.
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Lily Simmons 3♀
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Bleh! You guys actually get a choice.

Here in Canada, being it a 'bilingual' country, it's manditory to study French from Grade 1 (or 4, for Public Schools) to Grade 9. And in Grade 11, you must study a Third Lanuage. At least in Ontario. I wonder if Francophones have to study English?

Ooh ... I would really like to study Latin!
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Aidan Connors 7♂
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What's a Francophone?
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Lily Simmons 3♀
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A person (a Canadian, in this context), who's native tongue is French ... Last time I checked, thats 31 per cent of the country.
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Aidan Connors 7♂
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Oh. I thought more people spoke French up there than that. Hmmm.... *does thoughtful face*
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Lily Simmons 3♀
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Yes ... but they're all concentrated in particular areas ... Northern Ontario, Ottawa, Québec, Western New Brunswick, Territories. lol
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Aqua Flory 3♀
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Ronald: Wat does that say?

Lily: I don't think I know anyone who talks latin.....and wat do you mean by " native tongue is French" ?
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Henry Shanks
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In Romania, it's a little different.
In 2nd grade - 1st language is started (mostly English and French, but sometimes Italian, Spanish or German)
In 5th grade - 2nd language is started (mostly English, French and German)
And, for special 'language' classes, a new language is started in the 9th grade.
Oh, and all 8th and 9th grade students study latin. Some even study it up to 12th grade. I don't quite like latin, it's basically useless. Besides, if you know a romanic language (french, spanish, italian) you'll find it easy to learn. I didn't have much of a trouble, because Romanian is also a romanic language, so there are quite a number of similarities. The difference is some romanian words have been taken from finno-ugrical (sp?) languages, so we have a lot of weird sounds... like portuguese, if anyone knows it.
I study English and German, I've had some classes of French too (not in school), studied Latin for two years, and I've become very familiar with Spanish... italian and portuguese are quite alike, so I can make a few sentences too.
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Aqua Flory 3♀
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So how many languages do you know?? I only know 2 :(
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Lily Simmons 3♀
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'Native tongue' means that that is their first language. The language they grew up with at home ... almost 88% (I believe) of native-speaking French Canadians are concentrated in the one area: Québec (Québecois), and then they are also scattered regionally across the country. I suppose bilingual packaging encourages it. My first langauge is English, and I speak French well enough to get a job Ottawa, I suppose :P .
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Setsunai Kazorlem 7♂
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We learn:

English. (Umm, I'm not american. O_o)
German
Dutch

Dutch and German are kind of similar. We learn all the other langauges every month, Like Portugese and other languages. We have to take all of them already in Advanced Classes. I'm like...WTF?

I'm asian so I already know Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Filipino.
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Matt Spike
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wow, this poll is much more popular then i thot
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