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[PrejudiceSucks]

DannyMc252, on Mar 26 2006, 08:25 PM, said:

You learn German in CA? Im assuming higher education..
*checks birthday*
Huh? Didnt know americans even learnt foreign languages.

It's "Americans" .

And actually, they mostly learn French (or so I am told) and Spanish, but a few of them learn German (it seems).

[Moogle]

...ew....the typical stupid american stereo type....meh.
Anyways, there is german at my highschool, yuppers, only one teacher tho, neat language, although I have to admit I kinda wish I had done Japaneese, but theyr bolth neat

[DeathDude]

Indeed the typical "stereotype" creeps up again, what a surprise. Well here in Canada, actually quite a bit of languages can  be learned from as early as primary school grades 1-6, from the obvious like French, to german, spanish, japanese, to even here there's a big Cantonese following. Plus I think next year or year after it's going to be mandatory for children who enter grade 7 to take a second language.

[Juni Ori]

In addition to "must-learn" languages (Finnish, Swedish & English) we have options at elementary school to read for at least French, German, Russian, Italy and Spanish, but at higher levels of education there are a lot more to read. Me: Finnish excellent, English good, Swedish poor, French... well, I used to read it two years in elementary, so none   )

[DakaSha]

you guys are supposed to have like the best education system or something.
well... im still going to new zealand
screw education i want the lord of the rings as my back yard

[Moogle]

W00t!
First post

Anyhow, its kinda dissapointing but our school doesn't have Chineese at all, which is suprising...

[PrejudiceSucks]

Yeah, Chinese would be nice in our school too, but it's a bit unlikey, sadly.

That and Russian.

[Tulac]

Well just something I noticed. Isn't it funny how this topic is named foreign languages when this forum is international

[PrejudiceSucks]

True, but every language is foreign to at least one person on these forums, no?

For example, I actually communicate by Semaphore, English is my second language (which explains my poor grammar).

[DannyMc252]

Of course it is foreign.
Every language except english is foreign to me, and english is foreign to any non-english speaking people here ^^

[Moogle]

*eats rice and chow mein*
mmmm......

Yup, no Russian at our school either, which is rather weird o_0

[Blood-Pigggy]

I bet like five-hundred dollars none of you can speak Afrikaans.

And I'm not being serious, but if you can, that's awesome.

[ReamusLQ]

they teach French, Spanish, and Latin at my school.  There used to be German, but the teacher quit.

[A. J. Raffles]

Tulac, on Mar 27 2006, 06:33 PM, said:

Well just something I noticed. Isn't it funny how this topic is named foreign languages when this forum is international

Yes, but "foreignness" is a relative concept, and this topic is about learning languages which aren't your first language, right? How else would you call that?

I'd love to learn a whole bunch of new languages (including Icelandic, Finnish, Russian, Hungarian, Armenian and Ancient Greek, in no particular order), but I highly doubt I'll ever have time for that, which is a bit of a shame.

I'd say that Latin is perhaps one of the most useful languages in that it's great for language learning in general. It helps you to get a sense of the structure of language (especially because the emphasis isn't so much on speaking it), which can then be applied to other languages.

@Piggy: Can you still speak it? Wow.

[PrejudiceSucks]

Blood-Pigggy, on Mar 28 2006, 02:46 AM, said:

I bet like five-hundred dollars none of you can speak Afrikaans.

And I'm not being serious, but if you can, that's awesome.

Ik spreek keen Afrikaans!

Close?

Can I have 5 Rand if that's anything like right?