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[Facekillz058]

The teachers and principle at my school are being unnecessarily anal about getting Spanish taken of my schedule.
"HURR, YOU NEED IT TO GO TO COLLEGE"
A fact I know to be bullshit.
"ELLELE DON'T YOU WANNA GO TO COLLEGE"
Maybe, I dunno yet.
"WELL IMMA HAF TA TALK TO YO PARENTS ABOUT THIS."
Meh, they'll say the same things I've been saying.
I DON'T WANT YOUR DAMN FOREIGN LANGUAGES.
IF I AM EVER IN A SITUATION WHERE I NEED TO USE SPANISH, MY PLANS FOR LIFE WILL HAVE GONE HORRIBLY WRONG AT THAT POINT.
I rest my case.

EDIT: Mix this with my particularly sleepless week, and I'm particularly bitchy.

[Bauglir]

While it's true that you don't need it to get into college, you do need it to graduate from a very large number of programs, and they'll often let you waive the requirement for college courses in a language if you took HS courses (which are also typically easier). That said, there are much more interesting options available in your average university than in your average high school, and you might not even wind up in a program that requires that as part of its General Education requirements - if you go at all, which you might not.

Still, keep in mind that if it's a requirement for your HS, they can really just say "Screw you, it's in the curriculum, we don't have to justify it to every student who insists that it's not necessary for their life plans." You'd need a much better reason than "I don't want to" to get out of it, in that case.

[Facekillz058]

It's not a required course.
I had to shove that bit of the handbook in the face of more than one person today.

[Bauglir]

Then, yeah, there you go. This should be pretty simply handled under whatever policy they have for dropping courses, and not really be a hassle for you at all depending on what that policy actually is.

[Tellemurius]

It's not a required course.
I had to shove that bit of the handbook in the face of more than one person today.

Yea i skipped and went to learn russian instead at college, much more satisfactory than lame ass spanish. Its like the only mandatory class available for any school, how about some german instead or chinese, hell goddamn latin.

[Tellemurius]

It's not a required course.
I had to shove that bit of the handbook in the face of more than one person today.

Yea i skipped and went to learn russian instead at college, much more satisfactory than lame ass spanish. Its like the only mandatory class available for any school, how about some german instead or chinese, hell goddamn latin.

S-spanish is my first language!

I'm sorry man, but its not you or the language its the shitty choices i had in public schools

[FearfulJesuit]

I recommend Portuguese when you get to college. Like Spanish, it is easy, and if you know some Spanish it is extremely so. It is also extremely marketable, since many Americans seem to be under the impression that the world's fifth-largest economy is Spanish-speaking, and not very many speak Portuguese.

Indonesian is also one of those extremely marketable languages very few Americans know. I'd think about picking it up, but I've got Portuguese to maintain, I'm taking Russian, Latin and Farsi, and my university doesn't offer Indonesian. Indonesian's pretty easy, too- no gender or plurals, fairly simple(ish) grammar and no difficult sounds. None of the basic vocabulary is cognate...but then, if you're taking any language other than a Germanic or Romance one, you'll have to deal with this problem anyways.

[Thecard]

Ich spreche Deutsch!

Nicht gut, aber Ich kann!

[Descan]

For the same reason everyone is good at English: Americans keep yelling at you in it.

[Flying Dice]

Forget teaching a single language extensively, what universities should do is teach all of their students enough of five or six languages to order drinks, get themselves slapped, and talk their way out of being arrested.

[Thecard]

Forget teaching a single language extensively, what universities should do is teach all of their students enough of five or six languages to order drinks, get themselves slapped, and talk their way out of being arrested.

Pssh, I can get slapped in any country I want. Why would they need to teach that?

[Flying Dice]

Forget teaching a single language extensively, what universities should do is teach all of their students enough of five or six languages to order drinks, get themselves slapped, and talk their way out of being arrested.

Pssh, I can get slapped in any country I want. Why would they need to teach that?

It's much more elegant to get slapped (or slugged, depending on the person) for a single lewd or insulting phrase smoothly delivered than choppy profanity or rude gestures?

[Vector]

Yeah, I really don't need that in my life, thanks.

Learning foreign languages lets you read a lot of stuff that you couldn't otherwise, since frankly, most translations are kind of dreadful.

[Aseaheru]

Thing: Attempting to make video. Miss ending it by three seconds.
Spends rest of hour continuing, without the recording being saved.

Lack of time to go it a second time.

Thanks Bandicam, lack of money and three seconds of talking!

[Descan]

I ought to pick up a Gaelic bible.

I've never read it in English, but why not?

I'll be able to quote incomprehensible gibberish at people IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE!

Nobutseriously you're not a western language until you have a bible, it seems. Just a dialect until then (I wonder if Scots has a bible). Bible's pretty comprehensive in terms of words, should be nice.

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