What language did you take in high school?

I took French, Spanish and Russian - I love learning languages so teach myself bits here and there! I'm presently working on Gujarati

Hablo espanol.... ok not REALLY but I took 3 years in high school, and actually wanted to be certified as bilingual when I was in college, but never finished college so
my favorite Spanish phrase, may come in very handy if every visiting Mexico
Donde esta el bano? (where is the bathroom)

I took german in elementary and middle school (living in Germany they didn't offer any other language other than English) and in HS I took Spanish.

And we had a similar favorite phraso: Me gusto el bano: I like the bathroom! (Its a long story but we were silly and trying to make a boring class fun)

Originally Posted by babyharley

Spanish - I took it for 2 years - but I don't remember a thing!

Wait, I can say Hola

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And you can spell it, which is better thean some natives; (many spell it as ola, the way it is pronounced, which is an ocean wave).

Ich habe Deutsche gelernt.

I took French from grade 4 to OAC (grade 13, which no longer exists); my written French is terrible, but I speak it fairly well and have a good enough accent to get myself into trouble. (People tend to think I'm better at French than I am.) French was the only language offered to me, although other high schools in town taught Spanish, Latin and German.

I studied German in university, but didn't do terribly well: once again, I can speak it fairly well, but my written is terrible.

I've also learned how to swear in Gaelic, Russian, Polish, and Spanish. (I lived in "International House" during my first year of university, and this is what the foreign exchange students taught me.) Oh, and I can say dirty things in American Sign Language.

I took French for 2 years in middle school, 2 years in high school, and 2 semesters in college.

I did French and German to O'level (yes, I'm that old!) but can't remember much of either now I did Latin for a year (compulsory for one year but then I had a choice of continuing with Latin or taking up German or Spanish - went for German). In retrospect I wish I'd stuck with the Latin as I enjoyed it. I thought then that it wouldn't be very useful but as I went on to study Biology it would have turned out to be quite handy.

J'ai pris le français dans le collège, mais m'en souvenir Ã:censor: peine de n'importe lequel du tout!

I flunked French 1 in high school, dropped out shortly after, went to college, and got an Associates and a Bachelors without ever having to take anouther language course.

That made me very happy, but I'll never, ever be bilingual. Ce la vie!

cinco anos of espanol, and 1 semester of latin....which has helped to determine the meaning of big words from time to time....like "itis" means the inflamation of....etc.

Originally Posted by kittylover4ever

J'ai pris le français dans le collège, mais m'en souvenir Ã:censor: peine de n'importe lequel du tout!

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WOW!!! Susabella you never cease to amaze me!!!

just English which is my language but I would have freaked if it was a different language than what I am used to.

Spanish, for 3 years in middle school, three years in high school, two semesters of summer school, and next quarter. So that's...7 or so years? I can understand much much more than I can produce.
And a semester of French. I have a weird accent apparently, my prof was from Bordeaux and I think they always teach with a Paris accent here or so I've been told. I pretty much only know the kinds of things they put in traveler's emergency phrasebooks.

Although sometimes my friend and I will have conversations with her speaking French and me speaking Spanish and we get on reasonably well... useful when you want to say "this guy is a dirtbag, let's go to the bathroom"

I took French all four years in high school, then for three more years in college. It came in handy when I was stationed in Belgium in the Army, but don't ask me to speak it now!

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Although sometimes my friend and I will have conversations with her speaking French and me speaking Spanish and we get on reasonably well... useful when you want to say "this guy is a dirtbag, let's go to the bathroom"

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A college friend and I invented a language for such instances.

I took french k-8 manditory...alway did well spoken and written because it was the basics. Now I hardly remember anything. I know some animals, numbers, very basic conversational things like my name is, how are you, replies to that etc.

Then in highschool I opted to take more math instead of french LOL, except, when I moved to alberta for a while I took Japanese and I fell inlove with it. I hope to one day become fluent.

I also know some cree words, but not too much.

Spanish was the only one they offered. But I had gone threw a spanish grade school too.

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WOW!!! Susabella you never cease to amaze me!!!

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Merci!