<p>Luckily it wasn't me. Poor kid. He's probably scarred for life from all of my whimpering, hehe.</p>
<p>And yeah, I thought about taking two in one semester, but there's just too much else I want to take. It's definitely possible to learn/keep working on a language outside of a class, so that's something to think about too. Especially considering there are so many extracurricular resources at Princeton (Language Center, anyone? yes, i will in fact be living there for probably half or more of the school year).</p>
<p>I was planning on continuing Spanish, but I can't get the course I wanted, so French (or Latin, if I don't get the French course I want) it will be. We have eight semesters, though. Plenty of time to get languages down ;)</p>
<p>Zant I think you are good enough at Spanish to focus more on Chinese but that is just me.</p>
<p>I'm meh at Spanish and I want to be fluent. I think I will need to go to an actual spanish speaking country to really learn, because I've learned all the grammar stuff many times. I just hope that I can still study in Spain even if I don't take any spanish classes, but I'll have to look into that some more.
I'm just so scared that I'll forget everything I've learned in the past eight years of taking spanish...I've already forgotten so much since the AP.</p>
<p>I wanna be fluent in Chinese... it seems like a language I could actually become fluent in quickly unlike Japanese, which is always tough in terms of figuring out sentence structure</p>
<p>Yea Chinese grammar is like nonexistent. You just need to practice inflections and whatnot. And writing is a whole different story.</p>
<p>No the grammar exists, it's just intuitive. Japanese is unwieldy. I suck at inflections though. Writing isn't so bad.</p>
<p>sweet japanese should be fun. i know nothing about the language, but im taking it!</p>
<p>konichiwa!</p>
<p>Japanese is fun, don't get me wrong. It's just tough once you get past a certain level.</p>
<p>Don't forget, you still have to teach me, legend. Along with giving me my purple iguana. Don't even try to back out :p</p>
<p>oh wow, I remember that iguana promise...I can't believe you remembered!</p>
<p>Heck yea! An elephant never forgets...</p>
<p>I'm not exactly sure how that applies to this situation, but I bet it'll hit me at 3:00 one morning and I'll happily explain it to you all :)</p>
<p>lol, actually, I was just about to say (Psst, Phil's an elephant!) in the last post!</p>
<p>I don't think Princeton allows iguanas though...</p>
<p>My backpack does though! And Princeton allows backpacks! So it works out, right?</p>
<p>Philntex: Ahh, ok. Watashi wa anata ni Nihongo wo oshierutsumori desu! (I plan to teach you Japanese). </p>
<p>Or, literally: I you for/to Japanese teach plan to is! (can you see why I dislike the sentence structure?)</p>
<p>That sentence is most likely wrong. Oh well.</p>
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<p>Oo let me try in Chinese:</p>
<p>Wo jiao ni Riwen, dan shi, wo bu jiao ni Zhongwen. Mei tian, wo chi ni de baobei. Teehee.</p>
<p>Ok that's probably wrong too. Don't hurt me anyone who is actually fluent in these languages :X</p>
<p><em>drool</em></p>
<p>I heart foreign languages. And I like your logic, legend. Last I heard, Princeton was some kind of good university or somethin', so if they see a backpack they'll think they did the right thing by admitting a "smart" person. Word.</p>
<p>And zante, don't make fun of my weight. I just got out of camp, but that doesn't mean I'm not sensitive, okay? Geez...:p</p>
<p>Wo yao zuo zai ni de baobei shang. Mwaha.</p>
<p>Camp boy: They will totally let me bring in a backpack, worry not! :)</p>
<p>So what do you think the best language for a visual learner (i.e. me) would be?</p>
<p>Undoubtedly, one of the Romance languages. So much of the way you're taught is visual. And when it is aural, it's usually visual-aural. Italian seems to be particularly easy visual-wise. It follows rules quite well (unlike say French or, to a lesser extent, Portuguese).</p>
<p>So if you know French, what would be the next most simple language to learn: Spanish or Italian?</p>
<p>Italian. You'd be surprised how much you recognize. Even though they're not, both Italian and Portuguese seem to be healthy mixes of Spanish and French.</p>
<p>Btw zant, what time are you looking at for CHI 101? Out of curiosity...</p>
<p>I didn't call you fat. You're obviously god-like in your gorgeousness. </p>
<p>I think I'm going to take CHI103, intensive beginners chinese, informally known as "chinese for chinese speakers" so a bunch of chinese people who are illiterate, yup. It's from 10-10:50 everyday. </p>
<p>Btw, legend just sat on your baby and said that he's going to eat it tomorrow...you better watch out.</p>