Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20150910235150/@comment-25555436-20151005010032

SpiritedDreaming wrote: (Yes, my first High School only offered one language at a time). A thousand times better than how it was at my school. 11 years of my life, and the only other language ever taught was English, and only the most basic english. And the system was so lazy, or the teachers so dumb, we were taught basically the same shit for 8 years, with the other 3 instead teaching us "Up=Arriba, Down=Abajo".

To make things worse, most of the teachers lasted less than a year, and we spent at least 2 years with no english teacher at all. And some of the replacements were so bad it was better without them.

One even actually put in a test a question like this: "Translate this sentence to spanish". Cue the sentence itself switching to spanish in the most insulting, incoherent manner at the middle, in a way that made the entire sentence stop making sense. Plus some grammar mistakes in previous questions. I corrected her on it after finishing the test through some notes at the back of the paper. Coincidentally, she quit the next day XD.

The only teachers I ever had that actually knew english, were my Physics teacher, and some Hindu guy that looked somewhat mentally retarded but actually did the best job, not just translating things but also giving the pronounciation.