melan wrote:Alejo wrote:And our ASL classes are...ok. We learned to converse a lot, but the teacher talked about gossip and celebrities at least half the period. I can talk to a Deaf person reasonably well, but my vocabulary is a little lacking, except if we are talking about movies or actresses
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So cool that you can learn sign language at school!
Yeah
, it was a fun class. But it's kind of sad that I basically have no oppurtunity to use it unless I am talking to my cousin. So basically, every time I see a Deaf person I have a mini joy-seizure. Except this one time, when I was on the subway in NYC after a concert got out at around midnight. My friend and I sat down and there was only one group of other people on that part of the subway, compromising about six-seven Deaf people and a secret interpreter who never revealed him/herself. I noticed they kept staring at us(not really all too rude in Deaf culture), so I said hi and they just stared. Basically, they kept calling us drunks the whole ride. When my friend and I got off at Penn Station, I signed 'Goodnight, assholes. Whoever the interpreter, **** yourself.' Ahhh, the faces...priceless
. But yeah, that's the only time I ever USED it unless I was at a Deaf event or something. So a kinda useless class in the long run =l.
noir wrote:ILuvEire wrote:michaelhayes wrote:We have no language requirements at my school. You could graduate without stepping foot in a single foreign language class. The administration recommends 3 years of a foreign language to prepare for college, but many who follow this path quit as soon as the third year is done.
Our school offers Spanish, French, and Latin. The students at my school study them in that order.
Really? I thought that it was policy in all of the USA that you had to have 3 years of foreign language! Hmm, that's odd.
Probably it depends on the state and the city you're in.
In New York State, you have to take three years of a LOTE for a regents diploma. I honestly don't know the difference between a regents diploma and a normal one, other than that the former is 'better' and strongly encouraged.