Re: CHAT: Lg prefs (was: Re: Blandness)

On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Roger Mills wrote:

> Same here, but there were certainly cliques based on many other factors.
> There was a bit of  friendly rivalry between our (American) Spanish teacher
> and the (native) French teacher, who propagandized his students with things
> like, "ils parlent espagnole comme une vache française....".  French was far
> and away the more popular; Spanish was considered too easy.  And for some
> reason the very fine (native) German teacher had to beg for students.
<laugh> (at the quote)

When I took French in middle school, Spanish was far and away the most
popular...perhaps because we were in Houston.  :-)  Then French, and then
German the year I started French was canceled as a class because there
weren't enough people, so one of my friends sort of took it privately
from the teacher after school or something.  :-(

Said friend was half-German (no relation to my current boyfriend AFAIK)
and went absolutely ballistic whenever anyone called him a Nazi...can't
blame him.  (He was brown-haired and brown-eyed so far as I remember.)

YHL

Replies