Oh, FSM - that's ridiculously unfair. One might view an exchange visit as a perk, but surely, it's of such great value to everybody - every bit of worldliness helps grow one as a rounded individual, regardless of the strictly linguistic benefit.
Our schools did things differently, with Latin being all but expected. =:) I did okay with it; I'm pleased I took it, regardless, given how much of an underpinning Latin forms in many popular modern tongues. French I did fine with, though I've used it shockingly little in recent years, which I'd like to correct - I got on quite well with how it's put together, and my accent wasn't too bad. With any luck, I may get a good opportunity or two in the coming year, with one sister living in NW France, and whom I haven't visited in ages, with the last time we met being at Dad's funeral a couple years back. (Back in the day, I bought the original French versions of some Tintin adventures, as it took forever for English translations to appear for a few of them, including Tintin and the Blue Lotus, and Tintin in the Congo, the latter being very much a product of its time, shall we say)
Are you not really one for new languages, or was it French in particular that proved your nemesis?
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Date: 2016-09-17 12:46 pm (UTC)Our schools did things differently, with Latin being all but expected. =:) I did okay with it; I'm pleased I took it, regardless, given how much of an underpinning Latin forms in many popular modern tongues. French I did fine with, though I've used it shockingly little in recent years, which I'd like to correct - I got on quite well with how it's put together, and my accent wasn't too bad. With any luck, I may get a good opportunity or two in the coming year, with one sister living in NW France, and whom I haven't visited in ages, with the last time we met being at Dad's funeral a couple years back. (Back in the day, I bought the original French versions of some Tintin adventures, as it took forever for English translations to appear for a few of them, including Tintin and the Blue Lotus, and Tintin in the Congo, the latter being very much a product of its time, shall we say)
Are you not really one for new languages, or was it French in particular that proved your nemesis?