What Languages Did You Learn In School?

[MrMetroid]

For me it was just German

 

[Genie]

I am currently in school, as I'm 15.



We learn French in Year 7 (when we're 11/12) then in Year 8 and 9 we learn Spanish and French, then in Year 10 we decide which lessons we wish to choose, excluding Maths, English, Science, Religious Studies and P.E.



For my options I chose Business Studies, Media Studies, ICT and Spanish. I chose Spanish because my father is Spanish and I plan to move to Spain some time in the future.

 

[Rapunzel]

French, German, Latin.

 

[Sam.]

In primary school I learned Indonesian, and now I'm learning Japanese.

 

[Genie]

In primary school I learned Indonesian, and now I'm learning Japanese.

Wow, that's pretty awesome. If you don't mind me asking, where do you live?

 

[The Dragon Master]

He lives in Austrailia



And I learnt French and German.

 

[Jazzy]

French and Spanish

 

[beowulf]

french..............never had need to use it...........every time ive been to france they all speak passable english!

 

[Nebulous]

I took a couple Spanish classes.

 

[Evil Eye]

English.

I had a couple years of French and a year of German but I can't really count those

 

[Madyy]

I took 3 years of Spanish and I'm pretty fluent in it...my friends and I speak Spanish at school all the time even though we don't have the class anymore...Spanish is pretty necessary in Texas. XD

 

[Cranos]

French, English, German, Latin and Ancient Greek.



If you count my native language, also Dutch.



(and I learned some Japanese in Uni...)

 

[Kasynlie]

French in high school and Maori in my early years of schooling.

 

[McConnaughay]

I'll likely be forced to learn Spanish within the future but not yet.

 

[Kahnai]

Get this, my elementary school teaches Chinese, then when you get to Middle school you get Spanish one semester and French the next. When you get to High school you choose from Spanish, French, or Sign.



Wouldn't it make much more sense to have the kids stick to one language!?

 

[Andrew Darmac]

Spanish for four years, French for three.



I would have continued both for longer likely, if the emphasis remained on actually learning the spoken language, rather than emphasizing reading them (which they do for later years).



I mean, what does a child learn to do first? Read or speak?

 

[Kahnai]

Spanish for four years, French for three.



I would have continued both for longer likely, if the emphasis remained on actually learning the spoken language, rather than emphasizing reading them (which they do for later years).



I mean, what does a child learn to do first? Read or speak?

Technically they can learn to read before they speak. However most people don't think to teach a baby to read before it learns to speak. But babies who could not talk yet have been shown reading flash cards and pointing to the objects that matched the word.



...and before babies learn actual words they learn tones. Because no matter what language you speak the tone is the same. All voices get lower when they're angry, and higher when excited etc.



Hhmm...what else. Oh babies will learn sign language before verbal words if you teach them. If they learn signlanguage before learning to speak they've also been prove to have (on average) higher IQ's later in life.



Sorry... that was longer than expected but I am facinated with how people learn from infancy to adult. Sorry...



Second language aquisition is one of my major fields of study...

 

[Cranos]

...and before babies learn actual words they learn tones. Because no matter what language you speak the tone is the same. All voices get lower when they're angry, and higher when excited etc.

Actually that's culturally based, not universal. And they become deaf for the tones that aren't used in their native language(s).

 

[Kahnai]

Actually that's culturally based, not universal. And they become deaf for the tones that aren't used in their native language(s).

I'm not sure, we spent a whole day on it in my psych class and watched a video where they set up pitch readers (definately not sure if that's what the machine was called) of parents from different languages scolding their children or praising.



They did one test where there were babies in a room and when they went to reach for a toy their mothers told them don't touch that or don't do that, and all the pitch levels reached relatively the same area on all the grapsh with only very minor differences.



Maybe I just had a bad teacher, but according to that day I'm pretty sure...

 

[spitzveldmuis_w]

I took 3 years of Spanish and I'm pretty fluent in it...my friends and I speak Spanish at school all the time even though we don't have the class anymore...Spanish is pretty necessary in Texas.

Dutch (Native language) English, Am currently learning german, learned french for three years and I learned ancient greek and latin for a year.