Which Foreign Language class did you take?

[Altimadark]

I've failed Spanish, German, English, and Japanese, in that order.

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Whoops, English isn't a foreign language for me!

[MrBogosity]

Has anyone ever noticed that foreign language classes try to teach you to speak like a native, but English classes try to tell you how you, as a native English speaker, are doing it wrong?

[Travis Retriever]

Has anyone ever noticed that foreign language classes try to teach you to speak like a native, but English classes try to tell you how you, as a native English speaker, are doing it wrong?

Yeah.  Go figure.

[Travis Retriever]

Well, it's not Fortran or COBOL, so it could have been worse...

Or Assembly or binary. >.>

[MrBogosity]

Or Assembly or binary. >.>

There are lots of advantages to assembly. Steve Gibson and Mark Thompson write all of their programs in assembly, for two.

[Travis Retriever]

There are lots of advantages to assembly. Steve Gibson and Mark Thompson write all of their programs in assembly, for two.

I was mostly thinking about the stuff we did in engineering school, which was basically using binary commands to mean "shift, add, move" etc to individual pieces of data and where to access it in memory, etc.  I didn't do very good in that class because I couldn't get the damn interface to work/get set up until it was too late (it involved using some program from the university called PuTTY or something). >.<  That, and I had a WoW subscription at the time (HUGE mistake).
I bet I would have nailed it if the two above weren't such a big deal--as we later moved to something else using a different interface (still a bit related though) and I did extremely well.  First impressions with programs/interfaces/languages are kind of bitch like that. >.>

[MrBogosity]

There used to be a tank game called Omega, where you made a tank and you could fight either a computer tank or another person's. As you progressed, you got tanks with more and more features etc. But here's the thing: you had to program the tank for the attack strategy, with a computer programming language. So it was really up to who was better at programming their tanks!

[Travis Retriever]

There used to be a tank game called Omega, where you made a tank and you could fight either a computer tank or another person's. As you progressed, you got tanks with more and more features etc. But here's the thing: you had to program the tank for the attack strategy, with a computer programming language. So it was really up to who was better at programming their tanks!

Sounds like fun, actually, if a bit tedious for my tastes. :3 lol

But back on topic...so...why'd you pick German instead of say, Spanish, or French?

[FSBlueApocalypse]

I took Latin my freshman year but during the summer the Latin teacher died. So the school just put us into Spanish.