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DeD CHiKn
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In highschool I had a choice of (meaning I had to pick one, not I could choose to not participate) Spanish, French, and German.
I had no interest in any of them so I went to the counciler and asked about just straight up Latin like they used to teach as it is the root for many other languages I feel it would better serve me. I was told that Latin was removed from school because it doesnt exsist anymore. I asked about Italian and was told it was too similar to spanish to warrant a seperate class.
5 years of spanish (2 in middle school, 3 in highschool) later and I know "Puedro ir al bano por favor." Which to my understanding is Where is the bathroom? or May I go to the bathroom please? I used it as the latter everyday and walked the halls for 20 minutes. |
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Willem
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I have a German test tomorrow. Normally, I adore the language, despite not actually speaking it (We only have one hour of German a week), but at the moment, it's starting to annoy me.
Apfelschorle?! Bock?! Gaststättengewerbe?! Boo!
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Funkentelechy
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| Those are awesome words (whatever they mean) |
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ZigZag
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| Willem wrote: | | Apfelschorle?! Bock?! Gaststättengewerbe?! Boo! |
 You know, I never said the word Gaststättengewerbe in my whole life. That's only important if you study law or something. Everyone rather says Restaurant or Gaststätte. |
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Willem
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I'll tell my teacher that, if I fail the test. She'll forgive me, then. >_>
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bun bun
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| ZigZag wrote: | | Hmm...I'll try: J'ai eu le francais pour cinq ans et je ne peut pas ecrice ca ā francais aussi. |
J'ai pris les cours en franįais pendant cinq années mais je ne peux pas ecrire cette phrase en franįais.
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ZigZag
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| Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 9:23 am Post subject: |
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| Willem wrote: | | I'll tell my teacher that, if I fail the test. She'll forgive me, then. >_> |
I hope so^^ Good luck tomorrow!
| bun bun wrote: | | ZigZag wrote: | | Hmm...I'll try: J'ai eu le francais pour cinq ans et je ne peut pas ecrice ca ā francais aussi. |
J'ai pris les cours en franįais pendant cinq années mais je ne peux pas ecrire cette phrase en franįais.
...I think. |
Yes, that sounds way better. Sometimes I wish I would have paid more attention in the French class...but we also had a lot of fun laughing at the teacher. |
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Secret
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| DeD CHiKn wrote: | | 5 years of spanish (2 in middle school, 3 in highschool) later and I know "Puedro ir al bano por favor." Which to my understanding is Where is the bathroom? or May I go to the bathroom please? |
That's puedo, the yo form of poder (a stem-changing verb) which means 'to be able to.'
'Where is the bathroom' would be ?Donde es el bano? for lack of an upside-down question mark.
I've had a year and a quarter of Spanish. Maybe you should pay more attention?
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DeD CHiKn
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| Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 9:53 am Post subject: |
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I didnt pay attention, that was the point.
Hence me walking the halls for 20 minutes every class, and not wanting to be there in the first place.
EDIT: Should also note spanish was the only class I did bad in. As it was the only class I deemed trivial. |
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| Secret wrote: | | DeD CHiKn wrote: | | 5 years of spanish (2 in middle school, 3 in highschool) later and I know "Puedro ir al bano por favor." Which to my understanding is Where is the bathroom? or May I go to the bathroom please? |
That's puedo, the yo form of poder (a stem-changing verb) which means 'to be able to.'
'Where is the bathroom' would be ?Donde es el bano? for lack of an upside-down question mark.
I've had a year and a quarter of Spanish. Maybe you should pay more attention? |
The funniest part is how you go it completely wrong after correcting someone elses, dipshit. Know your limits and stop being so pretentious. |
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Secret
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Ah, right, it's esta. My mistake.
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| Maski wrote: | | mouse wrote: | i now realize why the people of the former yugoslavia have so few vowels - you netherlanders stole them all.
stop hogging all the vowels! |
heeey! We have vowels aplenty! We just... use them carefully  |
| then Mr_Moustache wrote: | | Een beetje nederlands hier, een beetje nederlands daar ! |
but see? look at that! _twice_ as many vowels as he needs.
if he and his people weren't so piggish with them, you wouldn't have to be so miserly.
share the vowels, i say!
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Willem
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Ik vind de hoeveelheid klinkers in het Nederlands wel leuk. Hoewel het Engels fantastisch is, heeft het Nederlands toch ook wel iets speciaals.
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Maski
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but see? look at that! _twice_ as many vowels as he needs.
if he and his people weren't so piggish with them, you wouldn't have to be so miserly.
share the vowels, i say! |
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Snorri
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| ZigZag wrote: | | Willem wrote: | | Apfelschorle?! Bock?! Gaststättengewerbe?! Boo! |
You know, I never said the word Gaststättengewerbe in my whole life. That's only important if you study law or something. Everyone rather says Restaurant or Gaststätte. |
Which is my main beef with french and german that is taught in school. They don't teach you anything usefull. My first 3 years of french consisted of me learning about things in a french school, which completely failed since I will never visit a french school. I wanna know what to say in restaurants and stuff like that, I will be a fucking tourist, not a student or politician.
The only cool word I learnt in german class is "Kiffen".
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