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Originally Posted by Evans
I'm the same as you two.
Hola Juan. Me llamo Carlos. De donde Pluto.Double L's for "Y" sound
Me llamo Juan.
(8 years of Spanish in school, and that's pretty much all I remember now)
At least Carlos was my name in Spanish class.
Banned
Oh, yes. The second I get my air qualifications and a plane, I'm coming after all y'all. Rest assured; EmuParadise's members will be extinguished by napalm within the next decade or so (4 years of HS to go, 4 years of college in the Corps, then a year or two of total training).
:Iron Man:
YOUR ASS IS MINE!
Teh Big Banana
1st through 5th grades - 5 years.
6th Grade, 9th grade, and 10th grade - 3 more years.
The problem is that when I got to the 6th grade, because I'd moved on to middle school from grade school, rather than continuing to build on what I'd already learned in grade school, they had us start from the beginning because some kids had never taken Spanish before.
So, those of us who had taken it before like me, breezed right through the class --but I was being taught what they'd already taught me in the 1st grade.
Then in the 7th grade, rather than continuing to build on that, they had us take French--as if 1 year of Spanish and 1 year of French was going to make us fluent in both. Pfft.
But then they also had us take Latin for the first 2 years of middle school, which everyone hated because Latin is a dead (and rather boring) language, which was some kind of grand experiment--the idea being that learning Latin now would help us in college or in English class later...yeah, I don't know what they were thinking either...or what they were smoking when they came up with that idea.
You're going to teach Latin to 12-14 year olds? When you have a hell of a time getting them to care about learning English?
Yeah right.
So, needless to say, the "grand experiment" failed miserably.
About 2 weeks into the 8th grade, the Latin teacher quit--finally tired of the abuse she constantly got from her students who paid no attention to her, showed her no respect. Of course, there was no one else who could teach Latin, so they had to drop the class and replace it with this lame arts & crafts class--because apparently replacing Latin with either Spanish or French instead made way too much sense.
So, that was middle school.
Then in high school, they had to once again teach us 1st year Spanish for all the students who'd never taken it before, but at least they built on it with 2nd year Spanish the next year.
So, I had 2nd year Spanish twice, and 1st year Spanish three times, and as a result don't know shit.
But you got to love and be impressed with the continuity of the Baltimore City Public School system /sarcasm.
Yeah, I know: Long Explanations Are Long, sorry if this is TLR--tried to shorten it as much as I could.
Coincidentally though, my 9th grade Spanish teacher was named Mr. Long, and it was both his first and last year as a teacher...
...allegedly because he was accused of having inappropriate relationships with several female students.
Which came as no surprise to his students, considering that he would regularly check out the hotter girls, especially the ones who wore tight/revealing clothes--mind you, these were 14 year olds--and be rather blatant and blasé about it.
Banned
Wow. That was a fascinating read. I'll never look at you the same way again, Segnin.
If you don't mind my asking, what years did you do your schooling? Right now, I'm in 8th grade, and Spanish has never been offered before 8th grade. Now, you said it was the Baltimore school district, which I am far from, but I didn't know that ANY schools had foreign language for their elementary kids.
Teh Big Banana
For grade school, it was another sort of experimental program for gifted/smart kids, but unlike the Latin experiment, that one actually worked.
I learned more in grade school then I did in middle school, but then I learned more in middle school then I did in high school too.
Which I'm pretty sure is the opposite of how it's supposed to work.
Oh well, somehow I managed to get a semi-decent education...I suppose.
Actually, if you think about it, teaching a foreign language to grade school kids makes perfect sense--it's during your early formative years when your mind is like a sponge soaking up knowledge, when you're constantly learning new concepts, and also when you first develop your language skills.
Who?
I never use net acronyms in real life... in fact, I avoid using them on the net.
I replace "lol" with "Hahaha" or "heheh".
the only ones i really use are "jk" and "brb"
oh, and WTF?
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Missed this post at first.None of them cos those acronyms mean nothing in spanish
Yeah, those don't make any sense in French, either.
Dreamweaver
We took 2 years of Spanish in elementary school. 4th and fifth grade, iirc.
Then, in 8th grade middle school we did something like 12 weeks of spanish, 12 weeks of french, and 12 weeks of german.
It was kinda funny though, because the teacher that taught us German completely didn't know German. And, was quite up front about that fact.
On the last test, we only had to know 4 of the whole 20 words he so kindly translated for us, and write them down on a piece of paper. It was pretty funny. He was just some math teacher they dumped the job on
Squiggly Line Squiggly Line Squiggly Line
Death before Dishonor
In the ass?
I use none whatsoever.
No need. I use real words in real life and slap the people I know for using internet acronyms. I even slap people I don't know.
So watch out.
Top Ranked Raven Pilot
That won't happen because you, sir, will be pummeled with a baby seal.
Banned
*Level 40 "LOLWUTTEHFUX" card pwns Level 12 "BABY SEAL" card*
As far as I know, Navy SEALs are usually legal age. Baby SEALs? The Navy guys are multiplying like rabbits...
gayness rules can't fit
I do that kind of thing to make fun of people who are doing it right then.
I told someone to "diaf" once.
and i say 1337 occasionally : /
Turbo Tayls!
WTF, OMFG, IMO, XD (students at my Vo-Tech school actually said that alot), GTFO
Who?
I am going to destroy you?
wait, that's not an acronym...
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