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I highly doubt that her French teacher is ethnically French...

3nodding She seems like my Japanese grammar book: every example says things like "He died in a car accident" or "He broke his leg because..." gonk xp

thats quite sad

mine just says I am going to the tokyo disneyland (Tokyo disneyland says going I am)

or

I like cats (cats ga I like)

Well, I had some good teachers and I had some bad ones. When I came to my current school in sixth grade most students had already been learning basic French for two to three years. Having never stepped foot in a language course, I was completely lost. My teacher, the lovely person that she is, didn't help at all. I made it through that year thanks to old fashioned hard work and pure luck.

In seventh and eighth grade I was lucky enough to have the same teacher. Although most students really hated her, she was a nice lady once you got to know her and she made sure we really knew the basics. She also taught us orgaizational skills that would help us in the future. During these two years I went from hating French to liking it a little, then back to being neutral because all my friends hated French.

During ninth grade I had my sixth grade teacher again, and she was worse this year. She absolutely loathed me because I'm quiet - she yelled at me at least once a day for being quiet - so I hated French with a passion that year. I did, however, discover that despite her poor teaching I was actually at the top of my class.

For tenth grade French III I had one of the best teachers I've ever had in my life. She used any teaching method she could find that she thought would help us learn and she never became impatient. She has to be one of the nicest people I've ever met. After seeing how shy and quiet I am, she let me stay after class to do my orals so lower my stress level. Thanks to her I loved not only French again, but all languages.

Unfortunately, I had to drop French because of schedule conflicts after that year, so her wonderful teaching was basically for nothing. ^^;

Ugh, that reminds me of Spanish I. gonk

What you should do is find a dictionary and look up new words and write them down. Or you can write about the stupid kids in your class with out them knowing. blaugh

same here except it was French 1 for me!

I had a brilliant first year teacher, and a terrible 2-3 year teacher.

biggrin My first year teacher was teaching Spanish for the first time to the first Spanish 1 middle school class in our school (probably in the district). The first thing he did (after the first day, in which nothing ever happens) was get out his guitar, write the words to "La Bamba" on teh board, and have us sing it. Seriously. He said that the best way to get a good feel of how the language works is to hear it sung and sing along too. The grammar was above our heads to an extent, and we didn't know teh words at all until he showed us what they meant, but it was a great way to start.
Unfortunately, he was held back by the fact that most of the class was tehre only because by taking SPanish, they got out of LIterature (yes, we split "Language Arts"--English class-- and "Literature"). We spent most of the year on -ar verbs and some vocab. I picked up pretty quickly, racked up a bunch of 100s, and at the end of the year was still translating the phrase "Abran sus libros a la pagina [insert number here]". The next year he went back to Thailand as a missionary. Did I mention he also spoke Thai fluently along with Spanish?

evil My 2nd/3rd year teacher was awful. She was almost NEVER on time. Sometimes, she just wouldn't show up. It was really bad 2nd year, when we were in a portable. It gets pretty cold first thing in the morning while standing outside, waiting for a teacher who may or may not make it to class. Then in class, she almost never actually taught. At most, we'd get busywork, maybe even a brief lecture.
I actually wrote an English paper about one day--we were supposed to have a quiz, and she spent THE ENTIRE CLASS PERIOD writing it on the overhead and telling us how she met her husband. Didn't help that we had worse slackers there than in the other teacher's class (don't want to say names online! Almost did! :XP smile This was pretty normal...

So yeah... mom keeps telling me that when I get to college, the kids that don't want to be there will mostly be gone... yay! biggrin

My 1st grade (age 6-7) Spanish teacher was amazing.

Sadly, I only had her for that year. I had a horribly incompetent teacher for 2nd (age 7- cool through 5th grade (age 10-11), and for most of 6th grade (age 11-12). In 7th grade, my teacher was cool, but all we did was watch movies and have fiestas. In 8th grade, my teacher was nice, but I didn't learn anything new. This year, we haven't learned anything. We're still on "Para Empezar" after 2 months.