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BoneyCork wrote:
Its been cool to hate Americans for the past 100 years, you've only just noticed it lately.
Really? I must have missed that while your countries' populations were overflowing our shores.
Anti-Americanism is only so popular now because we're the only real super-power left. Everyone hated the Russians for the most-part of a century now all they have are the Germans and East Europeans to hate them.
"He who cannot draw on 3,000 years is living hand-to-mouth." -Goethe
Random_Troll wrote:Don't know how it is in most states but in Georgia you arnt allowed out of High School till you take atleast 2 years of a foreign language. I took 4 -_- I <3 German
i hated that. 2 years and i passed but i dont remember a single sentence in spanish. Hoy Es El Doce de Junio 2004..Is that right?
I cant remember the US having hoardes of British people moving there between 1904 and 2004. Youre probably thinking of the irish, who emmigrated from southern ireland which isnt British.
Science has practically proven this is totally stupid, because the easiest time to lear a language is when you are< 5 years old, with between the ages of 5 and 10 being also suitable, after that your brain has specialised too much, and its near impossible to learn another language fluently without extremely intense teaching.
Yeah, it isn't literally that you learn languages better, you just pick up the sounds much better at a young age and such. I think Spanish should be required in US schools starting in elementary schools, but Americans bitch so much already about the mere PRESENCE of foreign languages it won't happen anytime soon. It is getting better though... Subtitled films at least occasionally get released here now.
How to be a Conservative:
You have to believe everything that has ever gone wrong in the history of your country was due to Liberals.
BoneyCork wrote:I cant remember the US having hoardes of British people moving there between 1904 and 2004. Youre probably thinking of the irish, who emmigrated from southern ireland which isnt British.
I suspect he's actually thinking of the statement he just made up so he could try and win an argument over the internet.
Other such examples include 'america invented teh interweb!!111one' and 'america is teh only democratic country on teh planet!!1111one'
I ended up doing English, Latin (age 11-16), German (age 11-16) and Japanese (age 14-17.5). Obviously I can't speak Latin, and despite having done German for five years and managed to get an A in my GCSE, I can only remember fragments of it. Almost the same with Japanese - for the first bit (GCSEs again) I was doing OK, and managed to get a B. After that, I switched schools, and they were just too far ahead (they'd been doing Japanese for around four years, and were around six months or so ahead, but they'd covered it in much more depth), and I just completely lost it. I only just scraped through.
BoneyCork wrote:I cant remember the US having hoardes of British people moving there between 1904 and 2004. Youre probably thinking of the irish, who emmigrated from southern ireland which isnt British.
I suspect he's actually thinking of the statement he just made up so he could try and win an argument over the internet.
Other such examples include 'america invented teh interweb!!111one' and 'america is teh only democratic country on teh planet!!1111one'
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Ah yes, I remember statements like that.
[sarcasm}But they have a point, America is a fine example of a democracy, voting to elect the leader of your country, ignoring who they voted for and putting the other guy into power. [/sarcasm}
BlackAura wrote:I ended up doing English, Latin (age 11-16), German (age 11-16) and Japanese (age 14-17.5). Obviously I can't speak Latin, and despite having done German for five years and managed to get an A in my GCSE, I can only remember fragments of it. Almost the same with Japanese - for the first bit (GCSEs again) I was doing OK, and managed to get a B. After that, I switched schools, and they were just too far ahead (they'd been doing Japanese for around four years, and were around six months or so ahead, but they'd covered it in much more depth), and I just completely lost it. I only just scraped through.
You can do a Japanese GCSE
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