French, Spanish, or Chinese

Blackroses216
Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:25:15 +0000

Fiona… US high school foreign language education is a failure. I’ve spent middle school and three years of high school studying Spanish and French, and I have barely anything to show for it. Mind you I got As in these classes too. Then you see some foreign exchange student come over and they’re practically fluent in English just from what they learned in language courses. I believe it’s because the US system concentrates too much on memorization than on practicing speech in class. (The exception to this is AP Spanish; at least at my school it’s pretty decent).