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⌈ Secret Post #2601 ⌋

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Comments

Re: How many languages do you speak ?

[(Anonymous)]

One. English. I can recognize words in both French and Spanish but that's about it.

My educational system only had French or Spanish options, and only in High School. I often wish they had started in Elementary or Middle school but oh well.

Re: How many languages do you speak ?

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm, not sure you missed much, anon. Language classes in regular school tend to be ineffective for many people. One of the many reasons is that for most people large classes and language learning do not go together at all.

Re: How many languages do you speak ?

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

I feel like it would have been good in my school system, as out classroom sizes were really small. My entire grade had about 40 kids in it, and each year that was divided up into 3 or 4 different classrooms.

But at the same time we had zero type of education assistance for anyone who had any learning disabilities or differences, which I did have, so you are probably correct in that it might not have made a difference.

Re: How many languages do you speak ?

[dreemyweird]

We had about 7 people in my language class, I think, and it still wasn't effective. I imagine it depends on people's motivation, too. Everyone needs to want to learn the language in order for the teacher to be able to make the best of their position.

And the lack of support for folks with disabilities would not have helped, of course.

The original anon did sound very entitled.

Re: How many languages do you speak ?

[intrigueing]

This is me. I took eight years of French and still can't speak it or understand it when it's spoken due to how unorganically and ineffectively it was taught. All I know is a lot of free-floating vocab and grammar rules that I get mixed up because I never had an opportunity to use them and get them embedded in my mind as anything other than rote-memorized trivia that was pounded into my skull enough times to leave some trace of memory.

I can recognize enough Spanish and French to understand what's being written (not spoken -- I just don't ever come into prolonged or frequent contact with anything other than English, so I can't auditorially distinguish many words among the jumble of syllables), but I've never had a chance to actually use it before in my life, so I can't speak it. A real shame, IMO. If I just had a chance to use it I think I could learn it -- I know as much Spanish as I know French even though I've never been formally taught it, just from the quantity of residual shreds of spoken and captioned Spanish I've incidentally come into contact with during my four years of college (basically no one speaks Spanish in my home state).

tl;dr: I have been taught and still remember the knowledge necessary to decipher the meaning of almost anything in written Spanish and French, which is a skill that bears almost no similarity whatsoever to knowing how to speak it.