Modern Languages?

[@xP]

Tbh, i dont want to learn a foriegn language, call me ignorant or whatever but most counties these days have people that can speak English so its pointless me learning theirs.

Eventually, somebody who agrees with me!

[Ramones]

agreed. we have to take 2 languages at my school, it sucks. Ima just get the C at GCSE then hopefully never have to speak or look at french or German until i go on holiday there and whip out my french phrase book. And also why do you get so many chineese people that come to england and then go to college or uni and do a degree in chineese?

[shiver]

I actually like French.

Your not too great at English either.

Wayne. (Forum Administrator) Please stay on topic.

Neither are you, if you were so good at English then you would notice that it's 'you're' instead of "your". ;l

[pulchritude]

You need them for when you go abroad :/

[@xP]

I actually like French.


Neither are you, if you were so good at English then you would notice that it's 'you're' instead of "your". ;l

Rofl owned. Anyways, i heate my German lesson, we just mess around anyways its fun

[Seacat]

I miss learning languages.

I can speak fluently in German and even though I might not go to Germany you can never say never.

What's to say you won't meet a German person in your job role in the future? As someone rightly said, in certain jobs you can get paid 20% more in some jobs for speaking another language - even if you don't have to use it in the job, it just shows responsibility and a lack of ignorance towards other cultures.

That 20% extra could be the difference between a nice car or a rubbish car; nice house or a normal house. Learning a language could be the difference between getting in to the course you want at university and not getting in to it. If they have 2 people with exactly the same qualifications, but one is fluent in another language then guess which they're gonner pick?

Even when I'd finished learning German I went on to do an after school course in Japanese. Admittedly I gave that up after a few months but that was because of other commitments.

[Polly-alyssa]

I personally hate modern foreign languages. I hate the way they are taught and hate the language. It is okay if you can speak fluently, but otherwise i think it is quite hard. i'v been studying both french and german at school for three years now and have to choose one to do at gcse so i'm doing german. also, often in france and germany lots of people can speak english, or at least the basics, so this is ok. I know this is probably quite a lazy attitude, but i think english is the best lanugage, and probably a very biased view, but i love the language and would love to continue english literature into A Level when i get there. I love Latin too, this is not a modern language, but i find it is taught differently. I really like the language and structure of the words, and second to english, it is my favourite language.

[@xP]

You need them for when you go abroad :/

I Suppose; 100 times out of 100 you might get German as you language then might go to spain and never go to Germany, what use would that be?

[scubadiva]

Our school is a language college, so we HAVE to waste at least 1 GCSE with a language. Granted, if you want to be a translator, they are useful, but tbh, half the stuff they teach is pointless.

'How many pets do you have?' :rolleyes:

[Jim Rotates]

j'adore le francais, c'est formidable et tres facile!

at least you dont have to do three languages, i have to do english, french and irish. however i am lucky as i love both english and french. irish is okay too. i'm better at languages than i am at maths and science.