The foreign language requirement in HS is a joke and effectively sets us up to be able to overconfidently order coffee and ask where the museum is if we ever get to travel abroad.
Bruh, they taught spanish for like 2 years in middle school, but I could never retain much besides the Day of the Dead animated film they always play near the end of the schoolyear.
Like, my Spanish Lexicon is: Uno Dos Tres Quatro Cinco Seis Seite Ocho Nueve Diaz, me llamo pizza, Me No Habla Espanol…
and… that’s about it
So for Highschool, I kinda cheated the system a bit, I chose Chinese because… Mandarin Chinese was one of my native languages (went to school in China until Grade 2) so I sort of just want to get easy grades (I ended up getting an A for the first year, B for the second year). Somehow, kids in the Chinese class behaved better than those kids in Spanish class, I guess people who willingly choose the hardest language tend to be less of troublemakers.
I seriously doubt anyone retained any of it. I only retained it because it was more of a 1st grade refresher class, rather than actually learning it for the first time.
Bruh, they taught spanish for like 2 years in middle school, but I could never retain much besides the Day of the Dead animated film they always play near the end of the schoolyear.
Like, my Spanish Lexicon is: Uno Dos Tres Quatro Cinco Seis Seite Ocho Nueve Diaz, me llamo pizza, Me No Habla Espanol…
and… that’s about it
So for Highschool, I kinda cheated the system a bit, I chose Chinese because… Mandarin Chinese was one of my native languages (went to school in China until Grade 2) so I sort of just want to get easy grades (I ended up getting an A for the first year, B for the second year). Somehow, kids in the Chinese class behaved better than those kids in Spanish class, I guess people who willingly choose the hardest language tend to be less of troublemakers.
I seriously doubt anyone retained any of it. I only retained it because it was more of a 1st grade refresher class, rather than actually learning it for the first time.