Monday, April 27, 2009
Me talk pretty one day.
I did my schooling from India, and during my high school I took up French for about a year. From beginning I always wanted to learn French or Spanish. And when I was in 11th, I had a chance to take either of them as a foreign language. I knew Spanish would be a lot easier than French, and at first I was leaning towards Spanish but my friends persuaded me to take French. I was excited to take French because I always found the language fascinating. I wanted to learn Spanish at the first because the Spanish teacher was cool and lenient, and it would help me in the other part of the world. So as the course started I was focused and interest to learn French. I even took French classes at home during the breaks. I found French language difficult and by that time it was too late to switch to Spanish or any other language class. We started of with basic and beginners French which was easy but as the course moved on it became hard to understand. In my last year of high school, I dropped the French class and was not able to complete my French. After dropping the course, little French that I had learned also got erased and I never had the chance to learn it again. I would love to be fluent in French some day.
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I really wish I could become fluent in a language other than English! I would love to learn German or French, but I think the most beneficial language other than English to learn in America (especially Texas), is Spanish. It seems that most businesses I have been to, especially restaurants have predominantly Spanish speaking employees. I worked at McAlister’s Deli and every Back of House employee only spoke Spanish. The Front of House employees had to communicate with the Back Of House employees often. When I first started out, I was so overwhelmed because I could not understand a word anyone was saying! Over the years, I picked up on words and we worked together to understand each other. Now I can put together sentences here and there. Since I am a business major, I think it is very important to be fluent in Spanish. In whatever I do, I will have to deal with many different types of people and several different languages. I took Spanish for three years in high school, and hardly learned a thing, but actually interacting with Spanish speaking people, having that “hands-on” conversational experience taught me more than the classes. Before I graduate, I would like to become bilingual.
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