French

jeroen · Post by **jeroen** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:30 pm

Hello sorry for the noobish post but I have to get it out of my system. On the schools here in The Netherlands you HAVE to learn French. (don't know about you Americans) But I just keep falling behind more and more. I know learn more and more. But it just isn't my thing. With geography I never was good in learning maps and places to. I can easly (most of the time) learn a piece of text in a jippie but that's logical. French and Geography (places and map exc) have no real logic to them. Does anybody here have the same problem?

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:52 pm

Les enfant Terebles

jeroen · Post by **jeroen** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 4:02 pm

French (or is it latin I'm getting latin to) aaaaaaaah

gravity · Post by **gravity** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 4:05 pm

English is kind of becoming a universal language, not because our country is nifty or anything, but because we aren't required to learn a second language, and so, by most people's nature, we don't learn it lol. Honestly, I wish i would have been forced to learn a second language when I was younger, it would come in handy nowadays with the widespread use of the internet among people of other countries.

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 4:06 pm

spanish is were its at, its pretty easy i finished my midterm in about half the class time given

jeroen · Post by **jeroen** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 4:07 pm

Yeah but I already know two languages Dutch (yeah right people understand it if they are from a foreign country) and English. I even have a special education so I get all my lessons witch are normally in Dutch in English (exept languages)

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 4:14 pm

I know a bit of spanish

With 1 1/2 years of Spanish classes and Watching Cheech and Chong my whole life

Im a White/Jap Mexican

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 4:25 pm

gravity wrote:English is kind of becoming a universal language, not because our country is nifty or anything, but because we aren't required to learn a second language, and so, by most people's nature, we don't learn it lol. Honestly, I wish i would have been forced to learn a second language when I was younger, it would come in handy nowadays with the widespread use of the internet among people of other countries.

Oh I'm sorry. YOUR country. I wasn't aware that Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, or the U.K. was in America.

(Not to mention some other countries that I can't mention because I don't know them.)

We gotta learn french up to grade 9 over here in Canada. It's rather amusing. We get to laugh at all the little grade 9's still learning it an struggling with it. We just sit there and go "Ohn hon hon" (The french laugh) and telling them to go mange la merde, si vous plais (never hurts to be polite)

Zhooibaal · Post by **Zhooibaal** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 7:22 am

I had French class for 3 years and still don't speak a word of it... It was well as long as it was just learning words, in other words, asociate strange letter sequences with words... I had no idea on how to pronounce any of it, but I got 9's and 10's (we Dutch people have a number grading system from 1 to 10 and an occasional 0 when not turning anything in. 10 is best) for those tests, I mostly got 1's 2's and 3's for speaking, 3's only when the teacher was in a good mood and felt like giving a higher score than I deserved

And then the worst part came, the grammar, I never got higher than a 2 for that

I do speak 3 languages anyway: Dutch, English and German.
Well, actually it's 5, I also speak Martian, but that's just like "ah, aaaah, ahahaha, aahhaaaah" and whale, but that basicly any language very slow with lots of tone slidings

Sir Games-A-Lot · Post by **Sir Games-A-Lot** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:25 am

This year I started taking Russian this, and it's actualy not so bad. I use Rosseta-Stone software since I'm home school, I need to log 80 hours of work/tests to get a credit from the high school that scores me via coursepondence(sp?). BTW. If you are still home schooled G-force look up the North Atlantic Regional High School you send in the work and they will give you highschool credits and a real diploma if you meet the graduation requirments (Record keeping of your work van be a pain but it's not that bad with the system they give you.

Extreme_Jesus · Post by **Extreme_Jesus** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:16 am

in most english schools you have to take a language (usually french or german) and i happen to do french. Most people get to drop it after 3 years, i didnt. Our school had "pathway" systems so the more academic you were the less choice you had in your GCSE courses. for instance most people have to do english, maths, science and humanities, i had to do english, maths, double science, french, humanities and PE. i got to pick only 3 of my subjects

Wayne Venomous · Post by **Wayne Venomous** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 2:40 pm

The only word you need to know in French is "Branleur"
Shout it at the next car you see with French plates on it!

Where I work in England, it's on a main route from the ferry port so we get a lot of foreign drivers who aren't quite used to driving on the left. When I'm driving to work I'm regularly having to slam the brakes on because of some idiot. For cars with German plates you could shout "Schwein Hund" or "Pemmel Schwein".

(I'm actually trying to learn German btw)

Extreme_Jesus · Post by **Extreme_Jesus** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 4:33 pm

i used to know the best insult in french but ive forgotten how to say it. in english it was "bastard cream"

ah, it amuses me

Zhooibaal · Post by **Zhooibaal** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 2:34 am

heh, as long as you remember everything that is said in this song, you're ok.

Wayne Venomous · Post by **Wayne Venomous** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 5:32 am

Extreme_Jesus wrote:i used to know the best insult in french but ive forgotten how to say it. in english it was "bastard cream"

ah, it amuses me

I got a foreign insults book somewhere and one Italian expression nearly made me fall off my chair!
"I would like to buy your children, how much for the boy?"