Daily Chit-Chat -- Winter and/or Summer Edition Page 15

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I am a Spanish naitve speaker, and I'm willing to learn another language... like French or Italian. I'm learning Italian on my own, and hoping to sign up for French in college.
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I took Spanish in high school. It was probably one of my favorite subjects, simply because of the teacher. I was actually Spanish club president u_u;
And, like, I'm minoring in Spanish because I love it so much.
jajaja.
At least you had a competent teacher. I also took Spanish in high school, but I didn't really learn much; neither of my teachers were particularly good.

I took French throughout high school, although my Senior year Mandarin Chinese was offered as an online course, or something. I would have liked to take it, but AP Government reared in its ugly head.
I've always questioned the utility of French compared to other foreign languages. At the very least, Spanish is far more useful.

Mandarin Chinese was also offered during my senior year, but it conflicted with AP Government and Economics. Small world, isn't it?

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I would much rather take a language class than try to learn something on my own. I mean, yeah, you can go at your own pace..but I know I'd just wind up procrastinating n_n;

At least you had a competent teacher. I also took Spanish in high school, but I didn't really learn much; neither of my teachers were particularly good.
My high school teacher actually used to work at a college. Basically, what happened was that she would have tons of students come in who weren't taught the basics of Spanish and just spent it doing tedious vocabulary/etc. So, I mean, she knows kind of what college is looking for. XD;
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I always thought it seemed like an interesting language. But, I love languages in general. I wish I had all the time in the world so I could learn many more languages. ;-;
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Oh, its just; I usually live in Lakeshore with some roomates~which is near where I go to university. But you know; sometimes I can't staaaaand my roomates, so I stay or live in holidays at my parents house, which is where the GTS is. So, its like a second home. ^^

Me too. :3 I wanna go back this summer. ;3;

We stayed there for three days. ^_^ Kind of colder there, but! You can get used to it. <3
Gods.. same here.. well sorta. I go to school in Oakville @[email protected] I can't stand my roommate sometimes.. she just does peculiar things that annoys me.. plus she always brings her friends over.. all the time.. till very late at night. Its frustrating as heck.
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At least you had a competent teacher. I also took Spanish in high school, but I didn't really learn much; neither of my teachers were particularly good.


I've always questioned the utility of French compared to other foreign languages. At the very least, Spanish is far more useful.

Mandarin Chinese was also offered during my senior year, but it conflicted with AP Government and Economics. Small world, isn't it?
Oh I think so too. French is more of a luxurious culture language, it isn't as practical as it used to be. Spanish/Mandarin/Japanese being offered as the primary language to study would make more sense.

AP Euro History and Environmental Science also contributed. Ugh.

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That sucks. D: My roommates are okay. I mean, I always have some friends over, but they don't get too loud and so I never get complaints.
However, one of my roommates is such a slob. I can't even.
One night - around like midnight or something - he went to get some cereal, and he spilled it all over the floor..and didn't even clean it up.
The next day, I was like "WTF", and wound up sweeping it up.

It happened again, though, and I made him go get the vacuum cleaner from the main building and vacuum it all up. (Our broom wasn't there for some reason, idk)
He's such a slob @[email protected]; He doesn't really clean after himself.
Like, I have three roommates, and I share a bathroom and basically a half of the apartment, and our side is very clean.
The other side..well one of my roommates is relatively clean, but the other like..does nothing. 8|

And they don't even do dishes or take out laundry.

/rant
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That sucks. D: My roommates are okay. I mean, I always have some friends over, but they don't get too loud and so I never get complaints.
However, one of my roommates is such a slob. I can't even.
One night - around like midnight or something - he went to get some cereal, and he spilled it all over the floor..and didn't even clean it up.
The next day, I was like "WTF", and wound up sweeping it up.

It happened again, though, and I made him go get the vacuum cleaner from the main building and vacuum it all up. (Our broom wasn't there for some reason, idk)
He's such a slob @[email protected]; He doesn't really clean after himself.
Like, I have three roommates, and I share a bathroom and basically a half of the apartment, and our side is very clean.
The other side..well one of my roommates is relatively clean, but the other like..does nothing. 8|

And they don't even do dishes or take out laundry.

/rant
@[email protected] Urk.. and by now you should be old enough, huh? Jeeze.. some people redefine the meaning of sloth..
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I know, right? You'd think so! But, you'd be surprised. ): And, that's pretty cool, Team Fail. o.o;
How did you even manage to take it?

Do you have to take French/learn it depending on the part of Canada you live in? oo;
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I know, right? You'd think so! But, you'd be surprised. ): And, that's pretty cool, Team Fail. o.o;
How did you even manage to take it?

Do you have to take French/learn it depending on the part of Canada you live in? oo;
I'm in Ontario and you have to take it up till the first year of Highschool ._. I'm not sure about other areas of Canada, though..
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Do you have to take French/learn it depending on the part of Canada you live in? oo;
Well in high school, you'd at least have to have once French course~
Well, in my old high school anyway.

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Well in high school, you'd at least have to have once French course~
Well, in my old high school anyway.
At my school, you needed to take 3 years of a language to graduate, but I got out of that requirement by taking one horrific year of vocational school.

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@[email protected] Urk.. and by now you should be old enough, huh? Jeeze.. some people redefine the meaning of sloth..
Sounds like me... except, I would never want to mess up someone else's place/make someone else clean it up.
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This place is kinda overwhelming to be perfectly honest. As much as I'd like to get into this, I feel stupid 'cause I don't understand most of what you guys / gals / adrogenes talk about with IV's, EV's and the like. Ah well, immersion at the deep end?
Mentioning Immersion, does anyone like Pendulum here?

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Well, in my neck of the woods, it's completely optional to take FSL (French as a Second Language). You can begin in Grade 4, but you can start any time. In High School, I'm taking French 10-9 Y, which is the version that is the "non-beginner's" French class. There is also the beginner's French class, too. In Canada, most Government jobs require you to know French, but I'm taking it for the benefit of knowing another language.

L'examen DALF is a National level exam that has two parts, Oral and Written. You would normally have to pay hundreds of dollars, but since there are examiners within my city, I only had to pay fifty dollars. This payment is like a down payment, if you don't take the test, you don't get it back, but if you do take it, then, well... You get it back.
That's pretty neat :o
I wish we had that where I went to school. ;-;

This place is kinda overwhelming to be perfectly honest. As much as I'd like to get into this, I feel stupid 'cause I don't understand most of what you guys / gals / adrogenes talk about with IV's, EV's and the like. Ah well, immersion at the deep end?
Mentioning Immersion, does anyone like Pendulum here?
Uhh. This is the Daily Chit Chat in Other Chat. We aren't even talking about Pokemon XD; Not all of the sections here are even about Pokemon :p
And, not everyone worries about IVs/EVs/etc. It's whatever the person wants to do.

Welcome to PC, by the way. Don't feel intimidated . . and if you have any questions/etc, you can PM me or any other staff member :)
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Oh, that's cool. Lol. That'd be amazing if we started our kids off learning that kind of stuff. ~-~;

Make the "F" in "Failure" lowercase and it'll be fine :P
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Oh, that's cool. Lol. That'd be amazing if we started our kids off learning that kind of stuff. ~-~;

Make the "F" in "Failure" lowercase and it'll be fine :P
It's called an Immersion program. You start your child learning French from kindergarten. This can apply with any language, make sure to look into it, there's usually long lines to sign kids up into it. I've been in a French Immersion program since kindergarten, and I'm glad to say I'm fully bilingual. : D

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That's really awesome. ): I'm really jealous. I want to be bilingual. ;_;
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Spanish really is easy to learn. It'd be the perfect thing to learn as you learn English grammar. They're both rather similar. lol.
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Learning Jap is probably done better early, when you have better language learning capabilities simply because it's harder to learn and it'd take much longer when you're older.
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