Personal Experiences/Problems With Foreign Language Classes

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zHellas

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Like if you're taking a class, and when you attempt to have some kind of conversation with a person born speaking the language you're learning and finding out that what they've been teaching you is too proper, or the slang(if any. In my German there are toll(cool) and verflixt(darn)) is WAY outdated.
 

Frequen-Z

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Apr 22, 2009
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The only problem I had learning French was my teacher. She was a *****. I think my brain refused to retain any of my knowledge from that class out of spite.
 

Davrel

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Jan 31, 2010
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In A-level german...Confusing Jugend-lage with Juden-lage - awkward moments ensued.
 

ethaninja

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Frequen-Z said:
The only problem I had learning French was my teacher. She was a *****. I think my brain refused to retain any of my knowledge from that class out of spite.
Hehe welcome to the club. Except mine was Japanese.
 

Flour

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My second(the previous teacher retired at the end of my first year) teacher for French was an asshole, he loved giving random tests, yelled at everybody for making mistakes(in French) and French was the only class for which at the end of the year I averaged a 0.4 out of 10(compared to the next-lowest who had a 4/10). It's funny though, I haven't seen him in seven years but I still hate the French language because of him. We learned nothing important, well, nothing I can remember. Not that it mattered, I found out the books we used were almost ten years old.(right now they'd be almost 20 years old)

My German teachers weren't too bad, and while I hated learning from outdated books(again, 10 years old in 2000), I loved to learn the language. Not much to say about these teachers(had three, one retired, numbers two and three were because I switched schools) except for the last one who spent days reading a newspaper because someone offended him(not me) and while I was kicked out of the class for my final year(managed to piss off the teacher) I had no problems with the final exams.

English.. It's funny how the most relaxed and competent teachers were all teaching English. While I still had six English teachers in four years(two teachers alternating classes in my second year first teacher in my first year got pregnant, replacement teacher left at the end of the year) that really didn't matter because I basically grew up on English games and cartoons. the English we got taught was 'formal' though. Again, a bit outdated but the teachers actually tried to correct the books whenever possible.

I do hope any of this makes sense, I'm not going to clean this up since I've already spent enough time adding/removing things.
 

Lullabye

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Oh, Italian class.....actually, no, I'm not revisiting those memories, I'm having a good day today and keeping it that way.
We learned a whole bunch of profanity, considering how often our teacher would swear at us.
his favorite term was "Kabong"...which I assumed meant idiot.
 

Quaxar

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I had to choose between Italian and French, so I took Italian as it is at least readable...
Unfortunately I wasn't interested at all in either one of them so I didn't really learn it. So now I'm about to end this course with an E and I know I'll never need it anyway, ah those wasted years...

But I do know what you mean, we had years and years of english grammar and whatever and I noticed how little actual colloquial language is taught.
 

Acier

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I loved Latin, the only reason I didn't take it my senior year was because I didn't have time to learn the charts due to my other high level classes, and the next level up was AP Vergil, which is one of the hardest APs with an abysmal pass rate on the exam.
 

Android2137

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Childhood Korean school. The teachers spoke nothing but Korean. How am I supposed to learn your language when you won't even explain it in mine?