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Did anyone else find their Spanish classes in High School entirely useless? (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I took three years of Spanish and got an A every semester. Even when it was still fresh in my mind, I was nowhere near able to hold even a very simple conversation. And now just a few years later it's all totally gone from my brain.

My mother's native language is Spanish and she never taught me, which I resent her for. But I still find it incredible how shitty my public school education in Spanish was. We really should be teaching kids a second language from kindergarten up.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I think you should be angrier at your mother dude. There’s only so much classes can do to help you learn a language, no matter how good they are.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'd have appreciated if those classes had emphasized this point that they are only supplementary, but they didn't. I really thought I was going to be fluent by the end of the third year.

The result is I wasted 45 minutes a day for three years of my life learning something that I'd never have enough mastery in to serve any sort of function in my adult life.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I think you should be angrier at your mother dude.

That's kinda fucked up. You can still learn, just use Comprehensible Input resources (like Dreaming Spanish) instead of the "blue-pill" crap like classes.