Experience with Schools where you learn a new Language?

[ja2mine]

My background is greek, so I'm thinking of taking some morning classes on Saturdays to learn the language (It's free) So does anyone here have experience with these types of weekend classes?

Aslo, did you find them helpful or not as I'm not very experienced in the language I'm learning and I'm a bit terrefied...

 

[Keldi]

I was thrown into spanish 2 without taking spanish 1...so um...wtf are you guys saying?
This isn't a weekend school, but I guess it fits. And, no, it isn't that helpful =^="

 

[KingofHearts]

I was thrown into Spanish when I was in fourth grade. We called it a Dual-Language Enrollment Program. Honestly though, there are days I loved Spanish class much better than English

 

[pft7]

Sounds like not many people took weekend classes - I didn't. We started German and French when I reached Year 7 (11 years old) at school and they started us off really slowly with the most basic words, I think I missed some early classes and caught up relatively easily. I enjoyed both and ended up taking French for 3 years and German for 6 years but I should practise them more. I don't think there is a need to be afraid, you'll pick it up. (I am in the UK.)

 

[lunatepic]

the schools around here make it mandatory to learn basic french starting in grade 1 or 4. I also attended an extended french school (an ordinary school but half the subjects are in french) for 3 years, the teachers were all great and it was a very good learning experience imo!

 

[ja2mine]

the schools around here make it mandatory to learn basic french starting in grade 1 or 4. I also attended an extended french school (an ordinary school but half the subjects are in french) for 3 years, the teachers were all great and it was a very good learning experience imo!

Oh yeah, I live in canada and they make us learn french up to grade 9

 

[dizzy bone]

It was mandatory to take a language class in my school. I took French for maybe 7 years but it didn't stick T_T I mean I guess it helped and I can read some French but I'm still terrible for having taken it for 7 years. I wish I studied a little harder in that class :'D

 

[namiieco]

all of primary everyone was made to learn french
in year 7 we were made to learn spanish and later in year 8 we were made to learn german as well (i was also studying japanese by myself which i am much more interested in so i didn't really take much time into studying german or spanish outside of school) but i'd often get the words from all the 3 languages i was learning mixed up it was really tough
oh btw i know almost 0 french despite studying it for 7 years
strawberry is fraise thats all i know
idek hello anymore whaaat

- - - Post Merge - - -

i think you should definitely go for it though! it will help you and you will have someone who knows the language so if you have any questions (even about stuff you've learnt about at home) they'd probably be glad to help you

 

[zeoli]

oh btw i know almost 0 french despite studying it for 7 years
strawberry is fraise thats all i know
idek hello anymore whaaat

From elementary till my sophomore year of high school, it was mandatory to learn Spanish. But I don't remember a lick of it and I'm a junior in college now.

 

[idiotdoomspiral]

in primary school we were inconsistent of what we would learn, sometimes it was spanish sometimes it was french and then we would either have huge gaps or never talk about what we learned again
and in my secondary school we were split up as two, there was the "spanish side" and the "german side"
you dont choose which one you get so i ended up on the german side. this means that i had to learn german but i was also seperated from being in classes with the kids on the spanish side which im not sure if it was better or worse for me
then we had to pick up french too in year 8, it was okay i guess, but after year 9 i dropped it and took german as a GCSE option and in year 10 we were finally all grouped together as one instead of having two sides, now its year 11 and we just revise the stuff we did i think without learning too much more for the exams

 

[Strawberryllama]

I'm starting my freshman year of high school, and we need two years of Spanish to graduate.

 

[ja2mine]

OK a little update on my situation: The school can only accept people with prior knowledge of the language (not a proper school, basically just on saturdays from 9-12:30) so I think i have to find a different option for learning this language :/