<p>Since I'm half Korean, I'll probably ask for help from my mom to learn Korean. I tried it when I was little, but it wasn't very, well, interesting.</p>
<p>Who said I couldn't read a Spanish book? That's a fallacy.</p>
<p>I'm taking French A Level, currently reading "Un Sac des Billes" and "Bonjour Tristesse". Hard going, I hope it's worth it!! I have also done german.</p>
<p>I finished my school's Spanish sequence (up to AP, 5th year; semi-fluent [fluent=can speak it 100% equally well as English]) in tenth grade and immediately started French. I'm a senior this year and am taking AP French.</p>
<p>I'm also teaching myself Norwegian.</p>
<p>Chinese 1 and AP Russian :-D I <3 Russian and want to major in it. Chinese is so hard, but hopefully I'll end up liking it as well.</p>
<p>^ Wow, your username ends with "ushka" too. :D</p>
<p>woo hoo! Are you russian? :-D :-D</p>
<p>Anniushka, how do you learn languages so fast? lol</p>
<p>Some people have parents that are Spanish teachers, etc. Your school goes to 5th year? My school goes upto 7th year if you choose Spanish 6. If you count both APs it's 8th year. That's lucky, if i went to your school, I would be in AP. I'm going to finish AP Latin though. :)</p>
<p>I just started Latin. Which, so far, I love.</p>
<p>What book are you using and where are you in grammar?</p>
<p>Wheelock's.</p>
<p>And I'm starting noun cases. Like I said, I just started. But I like translations, and it seems to have a big emphasis on that.</p>
<p>some people use Wheelock's....hmmm.</p>
<p>にほんご を ばんきょうする</p>
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Actually, no... my mom was reading Anna Karenina when I was born, and so I picked up my nickname from there. My parents have always called me "Anniushka" or "Annushka" as a nickname. :)</p>
<p> [quote=Jonathan K.] Anniushka, how do you learn languages so fast? lol
It's not as impressive as it sounds. :p My mom is one of the Spanish teachers at my high school, and I was homeschooled until high school, so Spanish has always been a big part of my education, which certainly wouldn't have been the case if I'd gone through the regular school system (which is entirely subsatisfactory when it comes to foreign language :mad:). I've also studied abroad several times, in Mexico and in Spain, and lived in Spain for three months during 7th grade. (Travel is probably my family's single biggest expense--people wonder how we afford it, until they see how we live our day-to-day lives! I don't mind; in fact, I hope to live the same way.)</p>
<p>After I got to speaking Spanish pretty fluently, another Romance language--especially one that has had such an influence on my native language, because of the Norman Invasion--was pretty easy to pick up. I taught myself the first year of French the summer immediately following the AP Spanish exam, then took years 2 and 3 during my junior year. This summer I studied abroad for a month and earned a 4th year independent credit. It helps that I'm already good at English (believe it or not, but many, many people who speak it natively are not :eek: :p). It has also helped a lot that my school runs on a block schedule where most classes are semester-long, so if one has the will, there is a way to progress very rapidly through the levels of a subject. In many cases, this translates to low actual achievement in a language, but independent rating scales have shown that mine isn't one of those cases. I suppose I have a natural propensity for language. It is my passion, so I'd better! :D</p>
<p>Lordy, I wrote a lot. You see? Language. It's my strong suit.</p>
<p>i'm self-studying English. so far so good.</p>
<p>I'm taking AP French now and it's pretty intense but I'm learning a lot. After five years of the language I've never really noticed it, but it's becoming second-nature.</p>
<p>For those of you who are self studying Arabic, would you please tell us what prorgams you're using?</p>
<p>The greatest language in the world: German.</p>
<p>Francais...je l'adore...mais j'ai fini tous les courses que mon ecole offre...donc, j'ai commence l'espagnol cette annee. Cependant, francais est meilleur et je peux le parler presque couramment.</p>
<p>And I speak a couple of other languages at home...</p>