<p>...that's terrible,
in that case: find someone from france, and tell them youll pay them some small amount to be your tutor and help you speak french. (or just become really good friends with them, so they would speak to you anyway, lol)</p>
<p>yep..we did about 6 packets a week that were just a waste of time along with book exercises. then we had a quiz or test everyday and they were impossible because we weren't taught anything</p>
<p>haha. i mostly get workbook pages or translation pages, though the higher spanish classes often get huge packets to do that mostly review stuff they already know. and we do maybe one or two speaking exercises a month. gosh</p>
<p>don't get me wrong..my spanish teacher for honors 3 spoke A LOT...only in english...with the girls...about fashion and boys</p>
<p>she's precisely why im not taking honors 4, she teaches it...and then she teaches 5/AP too....</p>
<p>We never get packets of review but forge ahead continuously with new material and vocabulary. The last time we did any review was the beginning of Spanish IV.</p>
<p>I still advocate having someone there to regulate and push for your progress in learning any language. I'm fully aware that high schools can have some sucky language programs, where tedious assignment dominate. I've even heard cases, where teachers couldn't even speak the language fluently. In those cases, if this applies to the OP, you have to be pro-active in your learning. Take the initiative that you would have taken if you self-taught yourself into the classroom. Read French. Listen to French. Try to talk French with anyone. The classroom is there to give the basics, but you have to build on that.</p>
<p>The problem with learning a foreign language on one's own, I will admit, is whether or not you are attacking it in the correct manner. I did not realize that Chinese was disyllabic, so I learned a pile of characters and attempted to speak monosyllabic Chinese. It did not work, so now I am going back and attempting to relearn all the things I messed up on and am doing well.</p>
<p>I'm currently teaching myself French right now online. Personally, I think that it's very easy in terms of writing and reading (I have a very high knowledge of Spanish; self-studying has made me worthy of AP IV, but in the curriculum, I'm stuck in Pre-AP II, grr...), and it's so similar to Spanish (because of the Latin origins). Yup. Speaking it is another matter though. You must learn it with audio. And I don't think it's sexy anymore because I can't speak it as well as I'd like to right now...</p>
<p>Righteous_Vigilante, Qu'est-ce que tu aimes mieux, l'espagnol ou le francais?</p>