1 post tagged “foreign language”

How many languages can you speak?  Which languages can you read or understand?

English, Spanish, Chinese (writing and reading limited), and a smattering of fangirl Japanese that you just have to pick up over the years.

I'm oddly not suck-tastic in English, but I can't say it wasn't a bit uphill trying to understand the English spoken at home and the English of the real world. Reading is the way to go. I may be completely neutral on a lot of things, but books are something I will waste breath to debate.

I remember starting out reading very early in late-Preschool/early-Kindergarten and they stuck me with the advanced readers. Then I got into the RL Program and failed every reading comprehension test for the first year. I think that's the only time I've ever gotten a D. So I didn't really read anything for the remainder of elementary school, except Greek mythology and folktales. I'm kind of glad actually. I made an attempt to go back and read the "childhood classics" that I had forsaken and thought most of them sucked; although it might have just been a few years too late.

They started teaching us Spanish about 2-3 times a week when I got into RL. It was little things like vocabulary and basic phrases, but poor grammar foundations in conjugation. Out of all my teachers, I've had one non-native speaker and I'm still not very good at the language. This is the first year I'm not in a Spanish class, which really is a pity T_T I was looking forward to AP Spanish.

I used to do Chinese school and I was like the best person in the class because everyone else was unmotivated, simply because they were like 8 years old and it wasted a lot of Saturday time. I liked it, even though I didn't get that far at all. Now I wish I had stuck with it longer. But now I mostly just watch dramas and movies for my Chinese fix.