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As far as I know there are 3 French teachers in my high school. The first one (the one that I have this semester) doesn't expect much at all and thinks that everybody is stupid, and gets offended when somebody's actually good at French. The 2nd one is the only male French teacher and he gives a lot of homework (not that I would mind), but personally I don't think that he knows French that well (don't ask how I made this assumption, I can just tell he's not that good at it by looking at his face eek ). The 3rd one seems alright except that she's old and hardly speaks English.

Out of the 3, mine is the best, in my opinion. I can do nothing in her class and still get 99, not to mention that she made a seperate curriculum just for me, which I thought was really nice of her. I'm going to see about getting into AP French next year or after that (usually the schools around here don't offer AP courses for languages). I R REVOLUTIONIZER domokun

Like Paulina Rubio? biggrin
LOL, j/k.

I've had some pretty great French teachers in my time. My first was Mr Fleming. Not a native speaker, but an amazing teacher. He was fun. Then, in my last two years of Secondary (English) School, I had a native speaker (Mme Bryan) with whom I got along very well. At the end of my two years with her, she told me that I was the most gifted student she had ever taught. That kinda made my year really.

In college, I had a lovely native speaker again, Barbara Frankowska (she was half Polish). She was also my form tutor, so we had a better relationship than most of the class.

I'm not sure exactly what made them all so great. I guess it was their way of tecahing, their praise and encouragement - the fact that they all loved me kinda helped!

So here is my public thanks to all three mrgreen .

Edit: Ooh I forgot to mention my Spanish teacher Isabel Ramallal. She was damn cool, too. She gave me extra work cos I was getting way ahead of the class - mostly cos I was stuck doing GCSE and AS Spanish in one year. But yes, she was always lovely and got me up from a C to and A in my last year. So I have much to thank her for too.

Growing up, I was taught Spanish by a family friend, Nieves, who served as a nanny/babysitter because my parents had to work almost constantly. Of course, it wasn't a let's-sit-down and review book type Spanish. It was a, "I'm going to speak in nothing but Spanish to you so your a** better learn somehow" teaching. Now, in the long run, I'm grateful for it, since a little bit is better than nothing, but damn I had some faulty spanish. Like I wrote a note to her before going out, and it started out "Yo vamanos...". Oh, man the embarassment. At least my pronunciation was natural.

My experience with teachers has been not so great sweatdrop .

Highschool language courses were;- Spanish. French. AND THAT WAS IT. Only recently did they add Latin. Our language program /sucks/.

So my first Spanish teacher was a blondie with that typical twangy tourista accent. lkfjl;kfjklfjs. She couldn't control her students, and it just was. A joke. I had her for two years since she was the only Spanish teacher there. My next Spanish teacher was okay though she had it in for me because she taught my brother before and he was a hassle. And I lived up to his name. And then my current Spanish teacher has a very beautiful pronunciation and voice. And the curriculum is FINALLY speeding up, which makes me happy.

But dear God, starting out, I HATED THE CURRICULUM.

It took me like two days to memorize how to conjugate the present tense, took me five minutes to learn the concept of present progressive.

But for some insanely intelligent reason. IT TOOK TWO YEARS FOR THEM TO GET PAST PRESENT TENSE AND PRESENT PROGRESSIVE.

I mean, We built a whole lot on vocabulary. A whole lot. So I shouldn't be bitching because my vocabulary is huge. But the grammar, they almost ignored. It made me so angry. /grammarfreak.

BUT STILL. TWO YEARS ON PRESENT TENSE. HOW. HARD. CAN. IT. BE?

THERE ARE 3 TYPES OF VERBS AND THEY CONJUGATE ALMOST EXACTLY THE SAME.

AR!
Yo ___o
Tu ___as
El ___ a
Nosotros ___amos
Ellos __an.

No Vosotros form because this isn't Castilian.

And then the er and ir conjugations.
Yo ___o
Tu ___es
El ____e
Nosotros ___emos/imos.
Ellos/ellas ___en.

You want progressive? It's A conjugated form of ser/estar, slap int heverb and put ando or iendo in there!

FOR EXAMPLE.
Yo estoy caminando!

OH MY GOD. COULD IT BE. I JUST WENT OVER IT IN LIKE, THIRTY SECONDS.

You don't need TWO YEARS TO GO OVER THAT.

She didn't even BOTHER to do pronunciation so all my class mates are like, WHOLE-LAH, COHMO ESTUHS.

XD Sorry for getting to angry.

And yeah. The other languages Ive studied have been entirely me researching by myself. I would like a language teacher but that's how it's been.

Yeah. @@! I don't intend to sound egotistical when I say this but, hell. I learned more German in eight months than I learned Spanish in those 2 hell years, and I was teaching myself.

Ahaha. My spanish teacher once did that, "DO you want to teach this class?" to me. She thought I wouldn't take up the offer. <3

I had a great English teacher last year but now we have a new teacher and I think all of our class speaks English better than she does. She makes pronunciation mistakes, she doesn't use tenses properly... I feel like my English is getting worse because of her. gonk
I just started learning Spanish this year, but I'm thinking of going back to French because the teacher is a nervous wreck! She makes us sit alone but we have to do dialogues at least three times a lesson so we have to sit together and then go back to sitting alone. She's afraid we might talk to each other if we sit together. I mean... we're in a language class, we should be able to communicate. And if someone drops a pen or something, she just gets mad and starts saying what a horrible class we are. I mean, we're not perfect but we're not that bad... rolleyes