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Aug 18, 2013 15:09:24 GMT -5
Post by Pinda on Aug 18, 2013 15:09:24 GMT -5
I hate school.
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Aug 18, 2013 15:09:38 GMT -5
Post by Ivar-Jedi on Aug 18, 2013 15:09:38 GMT -5
What i don't understand. Why do they teach you english if you speak it everyday? Isn't that like pointless and useless? Same reason they teach us Dutch... Yeah did not think about that. But okay back to the Pinda-Panel now. |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:09:50 GMT -5
Post by Newan on Aug 18, 2013 15:09:50 GMT -5
Ivar-Jedi Pinda They teach us English also known as Language arts it's writing, reading, etc. same as Dutch for you guys,
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Aug 18, 2013 15:10:10 GMT -5
Post by Ivar-Jedi on Aug 18, 2013 15:10:10 GMT -5
I LOVE English!  We did not have it last year for some reason but luckily this year it is back! ^^ So English is your 2nd language course? Our only 2nd lanuage course. |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:11:20 GMT -5
Post by Pinda on Aug 18, 2013 15:11:20 GMT -5
@ivar Pinda They teach us English also known as Language arts it's writing, reading, etc. same as Dutch for you guys, And I hate Dutch, it's my least favorite subject, I might even hate it more than Math (and that means a lot). Unfortunately for me, Dutch and Math are two of the three mandatory subjects you get in every year of every school... (the third is English, which I don't mind.) |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:11:45 GMT -5
Post by Newan on Aug 18, 2013 15:11:45 GMT -5
It's not horrible the teachers won't bite you..... |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:12:20 GMT -5
Post by Pinda on Aug 18, 2013 15:12:20 GMT -5
So English is your 2nd language course? Our only 2nd lanuage course. You're lucky, I got German. I had to choose either French or German. |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:12:34 GMT -5
Post by Newan on Aug 18, 2013 15:12:34 GMT -5
@ivar Pinda They teach us English also known as Language arts it's writing, reading, etc. same as Dutch for you guys, And I hate Dutch, it's my least favorite subject, I might even hate it more than Math (and that means a lot). Unfortunately for me, Dutch and Math are two of the three mandatory subjects you get in every year of every school... (the third is English, which I don't mind.) It may just be a better question for me to ask what subjects do you like? |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:12:59 GMT -5
Post by Pinda on Aug 18, 2013 15:12:59 GMT -5
It's not horrible the teachers won't bite you..... I don't mind the teachers, they're all lazy, and I can relate to that... since I'm lazy too. I just hate learning. |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:14:06 GMT -5
Post by Pinda on Aug 18, 2013 15:14:06 GMT -5
And I hate Dutch, it's my least favorite subject, I might even hate it more than Math (and that means a lot). Unfortunately for me, Dutch and Math are two of the three mandatory subjects you get in every year of every school... (the third is English, which I don't mind.) It may just be a better question for me to ask what subjects do you like? I only like history. That's it, i dislike/hate all other subjects. But I don't hate Geography and English as much as the others. |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:14:12 GMT -5
Post by Newan on Aug 18, 2013 15:14:12 GMT -5
Our only 2nd lanuage course. You're lucky, I got German. I had to choose either French or German. We have French but it isn't mandatory anymore until grade 11 I think or maybe not at all. We have mandatory Computers and Religion as I go to a catholic school but those are not mandatory in grade 11 anymore. |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:15:09 GMT -5
Post by Newan on Aug 18, 2013 15:15:09 GMT -5
It may just be a better question for me to ask what subjects do you like? I only like history. That's it, i dislike/hate all other subjects. But I don't hate Geography and English as much as the others. History is okay when you are learning about History. Last year it was all Economics, Politics and other government crap. |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:16:42 GMT -5
Post by Newan on Aug 18, 2013 15:16:42 GMT -5
Potato thanks for moving everything but that's kinda odd how Spiders post is the first post in the thread now?
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Aug 18, 2013 15:18:00 GMT -5
Post by Potato on Aug 18, 2013 15:18:00 GMT -5
Potato thanks for moving everything but that's kinda odd how Spiders post is the first post in the thread now? It puts them in order of how they were made, so all the first posts were made before the thread was created. |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:18:02 GMT -5
Post by Pinda on Aug 18, 2013 15:18:02 GMT -5
You're lucky, I got German. I had to choose either French or German. We have French but it isn't mandatory anymore until grade 11 I think or maybe not at all. We have mandatory Computers and Religion as I go to a catholic school but those are not mandatory in grade 11 anymore. We have English as a mandatory subject because almost no one speaks Dutch outside the Netherlands and Belgium, and since we are really focused on trade with other countries we need to speak at least a bit of English. At VWO (highest secondary school level) you have to choose at least one more language, I could only choose between German and French since I didn't choose to follow Latin and Spanish during the first years. And we luckily don't have a religion subject here. We have something similar to philosophy which includes religions sometimes. |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:18:44 GMT -5
Post by Newan on Aug 18, 2013 15:18:44 GMT -5
Potato thanks for moving everything but that's kinda odd how Spiders post is the first post in the thread now? It puts them in order of how they were made, so all the first posts were made before the thread was created. Ahh okay  |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:20:51 GMT -5
Post by Newan on Aug 18, 2013 15:20:51 GMT -5
We have French but it isn't mandatory anymore until grade 11 I think or maybe not at all. We have mandatory Computers and Religion as I go to a catholic school but those are not mandatory in grade 11 anymore. We have English as a mandatory subject because almost no one speaks Dutch outside the Netherlands and Belgium, and since we are really focused on trade with other countries we need to speak at least a bit of English. At VWO (highest secondary school level) you have to choose at least one more language, I could only choose between German and French since I didn't choose to follow Latin and Spanish during the first years. And we luckily don't have a religion subject here. We have something similar to philosophy which includes religions sometimes. Well I also think a reason we don't need necessarily need to learn French or Spanish is because Canada and America are both 2 of the biggest countries in the world with the majority speaking English anyways so it's not like you really need to learn more languages here unless you go over to Europe or something. |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:20:58 GMT -5
Post by Pinda on Aug 18, 2013 15:20:58 GMT -5
I only like history. That's it, i dislike/hate all other subjects. But I don't hate Geography and English as much as the others. History is okay when you are learning about History. Last year it was all Economics, Politics and other government crap. Well here it's really just history. But I don't like it as much as I used to. They now want us to study the names of paragraphs and capitals of our history book (of which there are like 40 and they're all 2-3 sentences) and I have to write them down exactly the way they were on my test when I see a picture that relates to the subject of that paragraph... which is total nonsense, before it was about connecting historical events. |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:24:08 GMT -5
Post by Pinda on Aug 18, 2013 15:24:08 GMT -5
We have English as a mandatory subject because almost no one speaks Dutch outside the Netherlands and Belgium, and since we are really focused on trade with other countries we need to speak at least a bit of English. At VWO (highest secondary school level) you have to choose at least one more language, I could only choose between German and French since I didn't choose to follow Latin and Spanish during the first years. And we luckily don't have a religion subject here. We have something similar to philosophy which includes religions sometimes. Well I also think a reason we don't need necessarily need to learn French or Spanish is because Canada and America are both 2 of the biggest countries in the world with the majority speaking English anyways so it's not like you really need to learn more languages here unless you go over to Europe or something. If you visit North-west Europe most people will speak English too. I think in the Netherlands, Belgium and the Scandinavian countries most people will at least understand English a bit. |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:24:30 GMT -5
Post by Newan on Aug 18, 2013 15:24:30 GMT -5
History is okay when you are learning about History. Last year it was all Economics, Politics and other government crap. Well here it's really just history. But I don't like it as much as I used to. They now want us to study the names of paragraphs and capitals of our history book (of which there are like 40 and they're all 2-3 sentences) and I have to write them down exactly the way they were on my test when I see a picture that relates to the subject of that paragraph... which is total nonsense, before it was about connecting historical events. That's a bad history class. Grade 8 and grade 6 was good history we learned about Aztecs, Ancient Greece, early Japan and Renaissance(mostly Italy) |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:25:45 GMT -5
Post by Newan on Aug 18, 2013 15:25:45 GMT -5
Well I also think a reason we don't need necessarily need to learn French or Spanish is because Canada and America are both 2 of the biggest countries in the world with the majority speaking English anyways so it's not like you really need to learn more languages here unless you go over to Europe or something. If you visit North-west Europe most people will speak English too. I think in the Netherlands, Belgium and the Scandinavian countries most people will at least understand English a bit. Well I really don't know any Dutch so I would be screwed in the NL but I do know that Peanut is Pinda so..... I can buy some Peanuts... |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:28:51 GMT -5
Post by Pinda on Aug 18, 2013 15:28:51 GMT -5
If you visit North-west Europe most people will speak English too. I think in the Netherlands, Belgium and the Scandinavian countries most people will at least understand English a bit. Well I really don't know any Dutch so I would be screwed in the NL but I do know that Peanut is Pinda so..... I can buy some Peanuts... You wouldn't be screwed. Like I said, most people speak English here. I've had English lessons since I was 6 (although that was mostly singing English songs and I had no idea what the text meant), I think most people get at least 6 years of English lessons here. I learned most from the Internet though, most games and sites don't get translated in Dutch. And yes, you could buy some peanuts. And maybe you could also buy Kaas (cheese)... |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:30:20 GMT -5
Post by Newan on Aug 18, 2013 15:30:20 GMT -5
Well I really don't know any Dutch so I would be screwed in the NL but I do know that Peanut is Pinda so..... I can buy some Peanuts... You wouldn't be screwed. Like I said, most people speak English here. I've had English lessons since I was 6 (although that was mostly singing English songs and I had no idea what the text meant), I think most people get at least 6 years of English lessons here. I learned most from the Internet though, most games and sites don't get translated in Dutch. And yes, you could buy some peanuts. And maybe you could also buy Kaas (cheese)... Well the Internet and technology is a good way to learn. But I would think the majority speaks Dutch? |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:31:37 GMT -5
Post by Newan on Aug 18, 2013 15:31:37 GMT -5
Anything Science is probably my strongest subject |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:32:10 GMT -5
Post by Pinda on Aug 18, 2013 15:32:10 GMT -5
You wouldn't be screwed. Like I said, most people speak English here. I've had English lessons since I was 6 (although that was mostly singing English songs and I had no idea what the text meant), I think most people get at least 6 years of English lessons here. I learned most from the Internet though, most games and sites don't get translated in Dutch. And yes, you could buy some peanuts. And maybe you could also buy Kaas (cheese)... Well the Internet and technology is a good way to learn. But I would think the majority speaks Dutch? Pretty much everyone speaks Dutch here. But it's like a secondary language for many people, although not everyone is very good at it. |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:32:37 GMT -5
Post by bobafett590 on Aug 18, 2013 15:32:37 GMT -5
I go back to school on the 5th of September.
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Aug 18, 2013 15:33:10 GMT -5
Post by Ivar-Jedi on Aug 18, 2013 15:33:10 GMT -5
Our only 2nd lanuage course. You're lucky, I got German. I had to choose either French or German. I've already had German. Just when i got the hang of it they dropped it. |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:33:26 GMT -5
Post by Newan on Aug 18, 2013 15:33:26 GMT -5
Well the Internet and technology is a good way to learn. But I would think the majority speaks Dutch? Pretty much everyone speaks Dutch here. But it's like a secondary language for many people, although not everyone is very good at it. Do you take the bus too school? (Kinda a random question) |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:33:31 GMT -5
Post by Ivar-Jedi on Aug 18, 2013 15:33:31 GMT -5
I go back to school on the 5th of September. August 20. |
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Aug 18, 2013 15:34:14 GMT -5
Post by Pinda on Aug 18, 2013 15:34:14 GMT -5
You're lucky, I got German. I had to choose either French or German. I've already had German. Just when i got the hang of it they dropped it. I can't drop it.  I would have if I could. I'll be forced to learn German until I finish secondary school. |
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We did not have it last year for some reason but luckily this year it is back! ^^
I would have if I could. I'll be forced to learn German until I finish secondary school.
it’s been quite a while. I’ve been pretty good, how about yourself?
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