<p>Has anyone taken foreign language classes?
How were they?
How difficult? How much study did you have to put in daily? Good teacher, bad teacher? What grade did you recieve with as much work as you put it (if you will)?
What language?</p>
<p>I am specifically interested in Spanish, Italian, French, Japanese, Chinese,Korean, Latin,Ancient Greek,Modern Greek.</p>
<p>Any experience would be great though, no matter what class you took.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I took intensive French last semester with Madame Simon. And it was pretty intensive. We had assignments and tests every week plus we had to put in a few hours of our own time in the language lab. It was tough in terms of the sheer amount of work involved but the material itself wasn't bad. She's a very fast-paced prof and you either love her or hate her. It was a 6 credit course. I wouldn't recommend taking an intensive course. Take a normal 3 credit course and actually learn something instead of constantly worrying about just keeping up. In all honesty, I didn't put much effort into the course. I didn't do any of the language lab work and didn't study too hard. But I still managed to walk away with a B- which is a lot more than what I had hoped for.</p>
<p>"I didn't put much effort into the course. I didn't do any of the language lab work and didn't study too hard. But I still managed to walk away with a B- which is a lot more than what I had hoped for."</p>
<p>Thanks, that's comforting (really though it is because you said you didnt even try that hard and you managed a B-)
I dont plan on taking intensive languages so that's good.</p>
<p>Do you think taking like french and italian at the same time, or just taking intensive french or intensive italian, is harder? </p>
<p>woah, that came out weird. Anyway, what do you think would probably be harder, 1 intensive or 2 regular?</p>
<p>Thanks for the info.
Any more testimonials would be great.</p>
<p>I think its best if you take one language at a time. I know a few people who took two and they kept getting mixed up with words and stuff. It just messes with your brain especially because French, Italian, and Spanish have a lot similar words.</p>
<p>Yeah, ide assume that can be a problem, but...</p>
<p>what about completely different ones?<br>
Cause Im pretty sure I'll be able to place into 3rd year spanish and 2nd year japanese and also want to take Italian.</p>
<p>Ide assume ide be far enough ahead in spanish to not get confused with italian.</p>
<p>What do you think?</p>
<p>I'm taking French and Italian right now, and it's not a problem at all. All the Italian beginners profs are GREAT, I have Tania Zampini and I love her. I have friends with the other profs too and they all like them. </p>
<p>As for French, they're very good about placing you into a level that's appropriate. I was in 407 last term and 408 this term and we did a lot of conversation, interpretation, comprehension, and a huge amount of idioms. </p>
<p>As for mixing the languages, my French class is directly after my Italian one and I don't have problems. I find that French even HELPS me in Italian because I understand all the structures and a lot of the vocabulary.</p>
<p>Ciao ed in bocca di lupo! (See you and good luck!)</p>
<p>thanks!
any more input. I'm pretty much postive i will take italian, spanish, and japanese my first year, but ide really like to know more about the difficulty of the classes.</p>
<p>bump for more opinions</p>