In school, did you have to take language classes?

Question

In my middle school, we have a choice of German or Spanish. I chose Spanish because my mother's side of the family has a Hispanic background. I find Spanish easier to learn because there are more cognates. Which language did you have to take in school? Which do you think is easier, Spanish or German?

Answer 1

I took Spanish and then french and i remember it all!! I think German is harder than Spanish because of its grammar and punctuation. And German is int that beautiful....

Answer 2

Spanish is easier than German.

There is a system of grading language difficulty used by the U.S. government for native English speakers learning a foreign tongue.

Level 1 - Romance Languages (Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian, Portugese) have a lot of cognates with English and are the easiest
Level 2 - German (related to English, but the grammar is more difficult)
It goes up to Level 5 - the most difficult - which include Chinese and Arabic

I took 3 years of Spanish in high school and 3 years in college
Majored in Russian in college
Spent one whole year going to Arabic classes
and have also taken classes as an adult in Greek, German, Nepalese, and French

It's very difficult to get very good at a foreign language without using it, so take advantage of chances to practice with native speakers, watch videos in Spanish, or read labels!

Answer 3

I had a choice to take a language. For me, the choices were German, French, Spanish, and Latin. I chose German. German was a lot easier for me than when I was learning Spanish

German lost by one vote back in 1776 when the Americans were deciding what language to use (lost to English, obviously)

Answer 4

We took French from the first year in Grammar school, then had the choice of Latin or German from the Second year. In the VIth form you could take Spanish or the one you had rejected in second year. The school also offers Japanese now.
I took French since that was a compulsory subject and elected to take Latin, which I'm glad I chose now since it has proved so useful since.
I don't really like the sound of German, sounds such an "ugly" language when compared with the Romance languages, and my Mother was against me having anything to do with German because of the the two World Wars (she lost her brothers in the first one)

Answer 5

i had to learn spanish for the first 8 years then 2 languages out of german, spanish, french, japanese for one year then 0 or 1 or 2 from then on

Answer 6

in middle school they had French and Spanish, in the many high schools I went to they had, as all combined, French, Spanish, Latin, German, Japanese and Chinese.

I didn't take any in my middle school, as if was not required for me, but in high school I tried Spanish in 9th grade, it was also the same grade I was self teaching myself Japanese, I mixed a Japanese word with a Spanish word, the teacher yelled at me in Spanish and in English told me to get out of the room. Needless to say, I hate the Spanish language now because of her. When I moved to where I am now I tried taking Japanese but I was enrolled a bit late in the start of school (about three weeks behind) that I had to drop the class because they were going faster than I could catch up.

Answer 7

Took french from grade 4 to grade 13, latin from grade nine to grade 12. Am told that since I took both of those I would find Italian and Spanish easy. I really am only fluent in english, but I think learning other languages is an excellent idea, especially if you are able to use them in eveyday situations.

Answer 8

I've taken a year of french in high school.
My son has taken spanish in school since kindergarten. I don't know about the rest of the country (america), but it is almost standard procedure in the southwest to teach them spanish from a young age.
My son has said he doesn't like spanish and would prefer to take japanese if they offered it.
I would say spanish is easier to learn, at least here, because it is so pervasive.

Answer 9

I had to learn German in primary school. That was non-negotiable. I simply carried on in high school because I already had two years of German under my belt.

I used to get straight A's in German, but I don't know how I would have gone if I'd had to learn Spanish. For me, German was pretty basic.

Answer 10

I took Spanish in middle school and French in high school.