@Suona :: I'm a Spanish minor. ^_~ No worries, though, it's not for everyone.

@Tilly :: I'll have to see if I can get a book. German is next on my language list, though. My evil twin keeps trying to teach me.

@Tasia :: Oh noes! That would have sucked. We didn't get to do frogs in high school either, because our teacher was squeamish, but we did pigs and frogs in middle school. And then a whole laundry list of animals in college.

I'm getting off now, bye everyone!

Haha. I have just grown up around people that wont learn to speach english, while living in america and using all our crap, so it just has grown to really tick me off. And most of the girls in our high school would talk crap about people in spanish, so it is a language that just peeves me now.

I don't think I'd want to dissect something..... not that I ever got the opportunity to or anything, my school sucked for classes, and when we had the ability to choose what classes we wanted, any science class I wanted they screwed me out of and gave me stupid earth sciences, I wanted biology or maybe chemistry, though I did like my science class for when we learned about the clouds and such, but biology would have been something I would have liked to actually pursue, but they never gave me the chance

Suooooonnnnnnaaaaa! I stalk you! *stalk stalk*

Spanish ticks off a lot of Americans, methinks. I dislike it when people use Spanish to pretend to be stupid when they're actually just rude. But a large number of rude people who speak another language do that.

@Mina: Oh lordy, I have dissected too many things to even name.

Well, considering I'm finished with college and majored in International Relations, I really doubt seeing myself dissecting anything outside of a classroom now, hehe. But I do find science, in general, fascinating.

I think Spanish gets a bad rap, really. It's a beautiful language and people forget it originates from Spain, a gorgeous country. It's also a romance language and, if you apply yourself properly to it, you can pick up both French and Italian. While my French skills do suck personally, lol, I can pick up things that people say in Italian and Spanish. It's rather cool. I was overseas in Belgium, speaking to a group of men who could only speak Italian (they were from Sicily) and was able to communicate with them through the fact that the languages were so similar, just a tad different.

I dont mind if people are hear from another country, just as long as they contribute to the economy, speak english, and aren't illegal. Otherwise, it ticks me off. ><;;

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Stalker! *points*

Dude, I took Latin (for help with medical terms) and it helped with all the other romance languages.

@Mina :: That's really rotten. I would have thought there would be some kind of standards that dictate what sciences you have to have. I know where I live we're required to have earth science, biology, and chemistry to graduate.

Not gonna lie, I use my Spanish for cursing at people in situations when having a foul mouth would get me in trouble. ^_^" But there aren't too many native Spanish speakers around me, so I guess I never really see the negative side of it. It really is a fun language to speak, and not hard to learn in comparison to other languages.

Aww, you noticed! *blushes*
Heheh.

@ steelmagghia: Oh, Latin! I forgot to mention that, haha! It's because French, Spanish, and Italian ALL stem from Latin anyway. ^__^

Around here where I live Spanish is forced on the students. The local city school where my siblings go ONLY offers Spanish... and they have a high number of Spanish speaking students in school who they allow to take Spanish classes as their "language" class. Personally, I feel this is very counter-productive. It makes the students feel that they have no choice in what they would like to learn and, in the end, turns them off Spanish pretty severely. My sister really balked at learning it, but I kept telling her to remember that it is a beautiful language in it's own right and to not hold popular sentiments against it. Also, if she applied herself to it, she'd pick up the French as well. She's now seeing the benefits and pluses to this, lol!

It's just a lot more 4th year courses (which are the hardest, usually brutal) and more courses that are necessary, so less room to boogy down with any other subject.

@Torr
I want to learn German too. :3 Next on my list is latin and german

@Suona
I curse at people in dirty quebec french too. .__. But it's not really cursing... In Quebec words like tabernacle (aka, a church.. XD) are slang for fuck. Idk, I don't have a stance on immigration, I've never interracted with immegrants cuz I live in a small place. I didn't even see a black person until I was like 14. D;

@Tasia
yeah, actual spanish is really pretty, and it's so close to french, the way they form verbs and stuff. I know french, so I can usually pick out the meaning of some spanish sentences by looking at it and stuff. It's just mexican spanish that gives the language a bad rap, they consider themselves different languages, the spanish hate the mexicans like the french hate the quebecois.

@Tasia: That's one thing I really loved about my high school. They offered Latin, Spanish, German, and French, all up to the AP levels. And it was a public high school.

I live in a really small town, but we're seriously agriculture, and there are a ton of hyspanics here. And no, thats not racist when its true that they are here, and thats what the majority of them are here for.

But I worked with the elementrary school, and its a pain in the ass when you're trying to teach the kids and some of them hardly know english and it holds back the other kids. And they usually were the ones that misbehaved the most, and we couldn't tell their parents about it because they didn't speak english, and the kids of course wouldn't translate for us. Oomg. It just infuriates me. There are definently the really good workers, and great citizens, but sadly because they're trying hard they'r the ones that get noticed, where as the lazy ass ones that dont try to be a actual good person here just hide and cause trouble and stay here while the good ones have to leave.

Pretty much every country has its own version of Spanish. It's like American english and British english. I think my preference is for the Andean spanish, though. They use a lot of Kechua words, so it gets hard to understand, but pretty.

@Tasia :: That's the way french is where I live. >.< My brother had taken two years of spanish, and was forced to switch to french when we moved, so he forgot everything he had learned and is having to start over again now.

French, huh? That's unusual.

I also suck at remember other languages. My brain doesn't seem to be that good at it.

Poor Su. Some people just don't have the ability to retain languages.

@ Suona: It's like you live in my town! lol! O_O There's a lot of racial tension around here, and I'll stand up for people in a heartbeat, but there are people on both sides of the issues making it more difficult for everyone involved. Our major dominant minority cultures are Cambodian, African American, and Mexican and often those within said cultures will purposely allow themselves to fall within stereotypes. >_<

But of course, this doesn't mean they all do.

@ Tilly: Darn' tootin' right! People think the accent IS the language and they form prejudices or allow already seated prejudices to color their judgement without fully understanding the heritage of the language itself. There are plenty of Central and South American countries that speak Spanish and they all have different accents which causes the language to BE so different. It's the same as comparing the accents of someone from New York and someone from Louisiana... they sound SO completely different!

Not that strange, really. We're only a few hours from the Quebec border, so there's a lot of French speakers in my town.

@ steel - Yeah, its a bummer

@ Chiba - I can totally relate

Yeah, but those are the two main ones. .___. Even in south america, it's only the western coast, and they're riddled with native words. Urgh, ever heard Chilean spanish? One of the grossest dialects evveeerrr, doesn't even sound like spanish, and they use totally different grammar structure.

It's like talking about francaise d'magreb. There's a different relationship there, cuz of colonization and shit.

hahaha, true, true!!!! But it makes it so unique! I'd probably compare it to Creole, or for that matter, the English language itself! It's almost a wholly new language when it comes to it.

@Tilly: Any time you start mixing more base languages with a romance, it starts getting awkward sounding.

Alright, kids. I'm off for a bit. Be back later tonight!

=waves= Bye, steelmagghia! Have a great evening. ^_^