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What language are you taking?

I'm taking French now, but during the last quarter of the school year I'll be taking Spanish. (For some reason, my second period schedule goes Phys. Ed, French, Phys. Ed, Spanish, each for one quarter of the school year...
 
Umm... None at the moment... but I'm considering either Japanese or Spanish. Hell, I might take two at the same time, as confusing as that could possibly get.
 
Bulerias said:
Umm... None at the moment... but I'm considering either Japanese or Spanish. Hell, I might take two at the same time, as confusing as that could possibly get.
I took German and Spanish my freshman year, I don't recommend it, unless you're a study maniac (not the elementary language classes require studying). Fortunately I knew Spanish well enough it was becoming second nature by then, but I kept confusing the pronouns and verbs, so I dropped German last year.

However, while German and Spanish have roots in the Indo-European language branch, Japanese is entirely different than Romance languages such as Spanish and would likely be much more difficult to confuse.
 
Mino said:
Bulerias said:
Umm... None at the moment... but I'm considering either Japanese or Spanish. Hell, I might take two at the same time, as confusing as that could possibly get.
I took German and Spanish my freshman year, I don't recommend it, unless you're a study maniac (not the elementary language classes require studying). Fortunately I knew Spanish well enough it was becoming second nature by then, but I kept confusing the pronouns and verbs, so I dropped German last year.

However, while German and Spanish have roots in the Indo-European language branch, Japanese is entirely different than Romance languages such as Spanish and would likely be much more difficult to confuse.
Yeah, and thing is, I'm gonna be doing it at the U of M... through the PSEO program or whatever it's called... and that's in addition to the home schooling classes. So like... 4 classes at home... and then 3 or 4 more at the U... definitely gonna be hard.

So yeah, I'll probably take just one or the other. Spanish is a lot more practical, and would probably be cool to learn just to understand what they're singing in flamenco, but Japanese... I dunno... I just like Japanese culture a lot.
 
I've found that now that I can read Spanish very well, other Romance languages such as Italian and Portuguese, and to a lesser degree French, are also rather easy to comprehend.
 
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