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 Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:09 pm
Pistil None of my french teachers were all that good, which is what discouraged me from learning another language. But now I'm regretting not learning french, because it really helps to be bilingual in Canada - it's almost impossible to get a government job if you only speak english. The one I truly had troubles with was my grade eight french teacher (also my homeroom teacher). To put it plainly, he had too many accents. He was born in Mauritania (little island in the Indian Ocean) then moved to Africa, then Quebec, and then here. He managed to pick up all the accents from all those places, and it was his first year teaching an english class. So it was impossible for anyone to understand him (in english, never mind when he spoke in french). Only now have I realized that I would like to learn a different language. But because of my experiences with horrible french teachers, I don't like the idea of learning french. So I figured I'd go with something that would be of use to me: swedish. Unfortunately, no such course exists in my university (closest I can get is German or Icelandic. confused ), so I'm forced to learn it on my own. Your university offers Icelandic and not Swedish? that's kinda scwered up stare
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 3:44 pm
Proudly_Jewish Pistil None of my french teachers were all that good, which is what discouraged me from learning another language. But now I'm regretting not learning french, because it really helps to be bilingual in Canada - it's almost impossible to get a government job if you only speak english. The one I truly had troubles with was my grade eight french teacher (also my homeroom teacher). To put it plainly, he had too many accents. He was born in Mauritania (little island in the Indian Ocean) then moved to Africa, then Quebec, and then here. He managed to pick up all the accents from all those places, and it was his first year teaching an english class. So it was impossible for anyone to understand him (in english, never mind when he spoke in french). Only now have I realized that I would like to learn a different language. But because of my experiences with horrible french teachers, I don't like the idea of learning french. So I figured I'd go with something that would be of use to me: swedish. Unfortunately, no such course exists in my university (closest I can get is German or Icelandic. confused ), so I'm forced to learn it on my own. Your university offers Icelandic and not Swedish? that's kinda scwered up stare I know! They offer several icelandic courses, including courses in history and stuff like that. Nothing about any scandinavian countries! To me, that makes no sense.
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Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 8:53 pm
gonk ... just... gonk Here's the different language courses I found that my university offers:
Spanish
French
German
Icelandic
Russian
Mandarin
Japanese
Sanskrit
Hindi-urdu
Italian
Ukrainian
Polish
Yiddish
*edits*
Hebrew
Cree
Ojibway
Latin
Greek
I even checked the other university in my city:
Arabic
French
German
Italian
Korean
Japanese
Mandarin
Portugese
Russian
Spanish
Nope. Swedish isn't in there. crying
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Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 8:58 pm
xd And for the hell of it, the next closest university - ~250 kms away:
French
Spanish
German
Italian
Cree
Saulteaux
Sioux
Latin
Greek
Hebrew
*and soon* Classical Chinese
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 5:29 am
I've had so many contacts with different language teachers. Hum...  I hope the link works, because it's quite important if you want to understand me. (The upper secondary shcool in four years is for me, even if it doesn't say it on the board.) My first English teacher just couldn't give me the mark 10 (the best), even if I spoke English far better than any one else. Like on third grade (when I started studying English) I could speak English better than anybody at the end of the semester, before we had even begun. Yes, I've been to English playschool for three years. And when I got to seventh grade, I started studying Swedish. I liked my teacher because she was just so great. I've never seen any one with such passion to Swedish. She really knew how good we were and gave the better ones something extra to do. And now I know mostly everything I should be studying now. On 8th grade I started (finally) French. I never liked the first teacher we had, but the second one was better. I still miss her. And she might be one of those reasons why I want to teach French in the future. And now, finally, in the upper secondary school. I've changed my French to level A from B2 (Begun in 3rd or 4th grade / Begun in 8th grade.) and my Swedish from B1 to A (Begun in 7th grade to 3rd/4th grade). I am just looking up for some challenge. The languages I am studying are English, Swedish, French (A-level) and Italian (B3-level; started in upper secondary school) and hopely Russian and German (B3-level)
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Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 8:41 am
Fun, you all talk about universities... I hope to start studying for a B.A in linguistics when I'm finished with all of my obligations - this course really offers everything, dead languages included - then I'll be one very happy person.
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Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 8:56 am
Pistil gonk ... just... gonk Here's the different language courses I found that my university offers: Spanish French German Icelandic Russian Mandarin Japanese Sanskrit Hindi-urdu Italian Ukrainian Polish Yiddish *edits* Hebrew Cree Ojibway Latin Greek I even checked the other university in my city: Arabic French German Italian Korean Japanese Mandarin Portugese Russian Spanish Nope. Swedish isn't in there. crying wow eek my University only offers English Arabic Mandarin Japanese Portugese Italian French German Spanish
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Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 9:54 pm
Hiker Pistil gonk ... just... gonk Here's the different language courses I found that my university offers: Spanish French German Icelandic Russian Mandarin Japanese Sanskrit Hindi-urdu Italian Ukrainian Polish Yiddish *edits* Hebrew Cree Ojibway Latin Greek I even checked the other university in my city: Arabic French German Italian Korean Japanese Mandarin Portugese Russian Spanish Nope. Swedish isn't in there. crying wow eek my University only offers English Arabic Mandarin Japanese Portugese Italian French German Spanish Ah yes. I forgot to mention English (second language) for both
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Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 9:10 pm
I had an awesome Spanish teacher once upon a time. She was a Ukranian who moved to Germany when she was a teenager and married a German. She then moved to the States and started speaking Spanish. She could speak German, Ukranian, Spanish, and English perfectly, none of them with any accent.
I just love interesting people like that! She was by far one of the best teachers I ever had.
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Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 4:07 pm
Kukushka I had an awesome Spanish teacher once upon a time. She was a Ukranian who moved to Germany when she was a teenager and married a German. She then moved to the States and started speaking Spanish. She could speak German, Ukranian, Spanish, and English perfectly, none of them with any accent. I just love interesting people like that! She was by far one of the best teachers I ever had. That's awesome. My 7th grade Spanish teacher was Hungarian. She came to the U.S. from Hungary when she was 8. The first language (besides English) she learned here was Japanese. Then she learned French and Spanish. I'm guessing she speaks them all. I know how you feel. 3nodding biggrin
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Spanish Nerd Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 2:43 pm
I had a friend from Japan teach me japanese. It was fun until he started to giggle at some of my pronounciations.
Rate Koke.
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 4:43 pm
In jr high I had a horrible Spanish teacher. She spoke as awkwardly as the 12 year old guys whose voices were changing and did things strictly by the book. She was the reason I gave up learning Spanish. (And after meeting hte women who would teach it in high school I still stand by that decision)
Currently I have quite a few language teachers. Three Chinese teachers and one Japanese.
Nora- Nora is a 23 year old student teacher working in my highschool in Taiwan. She's great to talk to because her English is fluent. She can easily explain things that I'd never get explained from my other teachers. She lets me choose what we learn from class to class.
Jocelyn- Another student teacher at my high school. We work out of a text book that teaches practical Chinese. I know a great deal of the early lessons already due to the fact that I've been studying conversational Chinese since arriving in Taiwan. But there is still lots to learn.
Jenny- Jenny teaches at an elementary school. We work from the first grade text book that Taiwanese students use and work on developing my reading and writing skills. So far, so good. Her English is poor so there is miscommunication sometimes and when I have a difficult question I want to ask, I save it for Nora.
Japanese: I can't remember my teacher's name, since we only ever call him sensei. He's a good teacher but lectures too much. I don't understand a lot of what goes on in my Japanese class and I'm not afraid to admit it. The class is taught in Chinese. So when the teacher is standing at the front of the room, he says a Japanese word and then explains it's meaning, it's use in grammar, etc. in Chinese. So I have to figure out what language he is speaking and then translate both languages into English and then back into the language I'm supposed to be speaking. It becomes rather difficult.
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Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 8:19 pm
My French teacher is so awesome. The way she teaches makes learning French really fun. Instead of teaching us a lot of words at one time, she'd teach us some of the words in one day and the next day we'd review those words and learn new words. That way, the words get drilled into our mind. She also taught us some swear words. She's so cool.
She recently adopted a baby from Nicaragua, so she's not going to be back for a while. She said that she'll be back by the beggining on February. Now instead of her teaching us, we have a subsitute.
My substitute French teacher is really mean. She talks really quietly, so we can never hear her and when we ask her to repeat what she said, she just says "Oh no, never mind, it's not important," even if it is important. She teaches us a bunch of words at a time and doesn't take time to let us review them. I can barely remember most of the words she taught us. I don't like her at all.
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Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 4:48 am
I'm Italian and my english teacher was soooooo good..this is why I'm in love with English language!!
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Spanish Nerd Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 10:17 am
Jules77 I'm Italian and my english teacher was soooooo good..this is why I'm in love with English language!! That's so cool! biggrin 4laugh
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