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burbuja0512, I would love to chat over a glass of wine with you. You seem to have a lot of interesting stories to tell. I appreciate the comment about Norwegian. I was aware of the English ability of Norwegians, since I have a bunch of Norwegian friends from when I worked at Disney World for a year and lived and partied with them. I was just thinking of an easy language for my son for credits (came up with Dutch or Norwegian). Korean would be interesting since it would be useful to spend some time there teaching English, and because he is into anything computer science/robots/AI, and I understand that South Korea is somewhat of a tech hub in Asia (although the geopolitical situation there scares me more than the continued radiation coming out of Fukushima Daichii).
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(02-24-2018, 09:31 AM)homeschoolmom1 Wrote: burbuja0512, I would love to chat over a glass of wine with you. You seem to have a lot of interesting stories to tell. I appreciate the comment about Norwegian. I was aware of the English ability of Norwegians, since I have a bunch of Norwegian friends from when I worked at Disney World for a year and lived and partied with them. I was just thinking of an easy language for my son for credits (came up with Dutch or Norwegian). Korean would be interesting since it would be useful to spend some time there teaching English, and because he is into anything computer science/robots/AI, and I understand that South Korea is somewhat of a tech hub in Asia (although the geopolitical situation there scares me more than the continued radiation coming out of Fukushima Daichii).
Did you say wine? I am there!!!!
Always happy to chat at any point. Send me a PM if you want to chat offline. I don't know a lot about most things, but I've spent the past 7 years or so traveling around the world for business. I've been to 60 countries and even though I love it, I am now taking a break because the travel aspect of the job is going to kill me... and I missed the kids. So anything multicultural I absolutely love.
Keep me posted on the language!!!
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With all of your help, we have a plan now. Our son is a visual learner and he insists on Japanese rather than an easier language. I also found out that there is an AP exam for Japanese. Woot woot, I had no idea. The plan is for him to self study for 2 year and attempt the AP exam. I told him that it is crazy hard (between JLPT 3-2) and I do not expect him to get a score of 3 or higher. If he passes, great, if not he will do Japanese 1 and 2 at Foothill College.
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(03-02-2018, 11:55 AM)homeschoolmom1 Wrote: With all of your help, we have a plan now. Our son is a visual learner and he insists on Japanese rather than an easier language. I also found out that there is an AP exam for Japanese. Woot woot, I had no idea. The plan is for him to self study for 2 year and attempt the AP exam. I told him that it is crazy hard (between JLPT 3-2) and I do not expect him to get a score of 3 or higher. If he passes, great, if not he will do Japanese 1 and 2 at Foothill College.
That's a good plan. Always nice to have options. If he doesn't pass the AP exam, but has studied for a while, then the college courses should be fairly easy for him - he'll have quite a head start!
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Working on a difficult language that you enjoy is a million times easier than working on an "easy" language that you hate.
He'll do a great job! How exciting!
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I have nothing of value to add, other than: I took Japanese in high school and enjoyed it very much. It's a beautiful language, backed by gorgeous culture. I took a total of 2 years and really started to make some progress, but it takes a very long time to master even conversational Japanese and I didn't get close.
