forum Please, allow us to converse...

Started May 02, 2019 by @Low_Mein

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Ohh oKiE DoKeY then…

…..does the state not tell your teachers what to teach and what books to read????

Um… kinda not? At least not what to read… There is some plan about what they are supposed to teach us, but most teachers just do it their own way. For example, we are supposed to learn grammar in both Swedish and English, but our teacher (same in both subjects) hasn’t taught us any grammar at all. All we do is read books (not even classics or famous books) and then we make mindmaps on what we’ve read and sometimes we create our own theaters out of some scene from the book. It’s really stupid, actually. Most of the grammar I know I have pretty much taught myself or learned from my parents or from reading. (Actually, talking to all of you guys on this site for about a month now have improved my English a lot, I have raised my grades because of that yay)

wait, do schools in other countries teach english mandatorily?

Yep, at least we do in Sweden. We are taught English from that we are 8 or 9-ish and then we have it almost as much as we have Swedish for the rest of our time in school…

I feel so appreciated
We have the choice of taking french, spanish, or german for a semester, but it isn't mandatory.

We have that choice too, but it’s for 4 entire school years instead of one semester… And we have those classes almost as much as we have English, I think.

wow. yeah, no wonder all of you are more educated than americans.

We have options of french and spanish and there's three but you don't have to do all three and they're each a year long (each "part"). We used to have german too, but they took it away because not enough people were taking it and the teacher was awful. They did a thing though so if you were in German 1 you could finish but no one new could take German 1 after that

That was a wreck and probably made bo sense lol

That makes sense. Us Americans over here are always like #MERICA and we're the best and we love to act arrogant and flaunt it in everyone's face but in reality we all idiots. (K that was a false generalization but ya get the point)

its true lol we all stupid

But like…we forget about Norway. I hear it's so much better. But I haven't looked into it at all so idrk

Norway? What's Norway? Don't you mean North America? XD

I just got back from the fair its midnight and it was really fun

Good for you! Also, yeah, as far as I know Norway has a pretty good school system

I just meant in general

Ok (but as a Swede I gotta say we are cooler than all the other Scandinavian countrys hehe)

I agree. I'm american

Well thank you

Hello again I'm currently surrounded by water bottles, paper towels, crackers, baby wipes, and shaving kits (without razors–how dumb is that?). How are your days going?

Your username fitted so well with that message I'm sorry but that's the only thing I can focus on right now haha

unnecessary maniacal laughter

Well I have spent the day out in my garden building a big fence. And right now I am baking a cake. I have flour all over my clothes…

Awe I want to bake a cake XD it would be self torcher though since I can't eat cake yet

Why not?

The holes from my wisdom teeth still aren't closed so since cake has a lot of crumbs they could go into the holes and then I would get an infection

Sad…

Yeah, I mean I lost a bit of weight over the past week since I can't eat much junk food so that's a plus XD

scared wondering

I have a dam problem guys… I’m supposed to compete with this cake, and it hasn’t increased like it should…