Language Classes

[Warbsywoo]

So I'm taking the "Conversation and Composition in Chinese" 210 class at my community college, and the first day the professor spoke so fast in Mandarin that I got spooked halfway through the session. Then she slowed down a bit so it was fine after that.
The topic was obviously introduction, and we had to introduce ourselves in Mandarin to the entire class...which was daunting, but I managed even though I did go last.

Anyways, the professor was really interesting. She's from Beijing, a native Mandarin speaker who has taught at universities here in the States for about maybe a decade. I think it'll be great learning about the culture and the language from an actual native speaker. It'll help with understanding the language at its normal pace too.

Anyone else love language classes? If so, what do you love about it?
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[*Serenity*]

LOVE Spanish. I've taken it for 6 years, and now that I've got my minor I'm going to take a bit of French. I'm not sure why I love it so much, most people hate learning languages. I think it's because you really have to work at it if you want to be good, and the outcome is so rewarding. Being able to to speak to others in a totally different language than your native one is so awesome. Good teachers definitely help, as do ones that are hard. You can't really learn from easy teachers/classes, you just memorize and forget.

 

[Linnaete]

I took German for five years...and dropped it this year unfortunately. It was a shame. I couldn't really fit in it my sixth form schedule as I wanted to take English Language (which turned out to be a rather shit lesson). It's a great language to study and the fun is certainly when you can take the phrases you have just learnt from the classroom and apply it outside to some bewildered people.

My last school had a lot of German students, so they were there to occasionally help us out when we were revising for oral exams. I was great friends with them and it was amusing when we would try and recite from the top of our heads some random German sentences that made little sense to them. The lessons were very memorable. The teacher was from Dusseldorf and could speak about 5 languages, which was impressive. She was rather good in keeping control - being able to tell off someone in German and leave them utterly baffled and silent. During lessons she would stop us in the middle of our vocabulary revisions and fill us in on German culture while occasionally bringing in German food. I have no idea where she got them from though. xD

 

[Aerith]

I tried learning French for 3 years, I failed, couldn't pronounce things right because of my Filipino accent
So I moved onto Spanish, figured it'd be more useful and I LOOOOVE IT. I have been taking it for 5 or 6 years now, and I can speak it pretty fluently. Though I'm kind of stumping on new vocab now and the teacher's picking on me
That's when my cousin Steve taught me about his brilliant years in Spanish, and he gave me advice: Always answer with "No se." It's like "Como se dice (insert something here)?" "No se." "Cual es tu nombre?" "No se." He said that only worked as long as the teachers thought it was cute, which was until high school.
Me gusta clase de espanol--says it all.