• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      Gods, high school spanish is so fucking useless in the real world.

      I took four years of that shit, and couldn’t carry on a conversation. I learned more from my Mexican girlfriend in six months (and still suck at Spanish, unless I’m cursing, but still).

      If you’re teaching a bunch of gringos Spanish, conjugating verbs instead of building vocabulary and actually speaking with the language is what matters. Do I give a fuck if some Guatemalan asks me where the bus stop is by saying “where bus to be”? No, because I can fucking parse that by virtue of being fluent in English.

      But not even knowing how to say what the fuck it is you need to find after 4 years of the classes? Jfc.

      Ugh. Just fuck high school language classes.