Language Classes

The first day of French class was today! I got put into the beginner course because the french placement test they gave us was epically hard and long so I did not do well enough to be with the smart people.  I was butt hurt at first but there were other people in the class that studied French for 3 years like me.  Also, if the class becomes too easy I can be moved to the more advanced class, which I want because I only have so long to get good at French! 

The French teacher was very nice and spoke clearly so we could understand her.  She asked us simple questions like what our names were and how old we were.  One kid in the class, Dylan, was trying to day "I am 22".  Bless his heart, he has never taken French and is American so his accent is not great.  When he was saying his phrase he said "Je suis vendu" instead of "J'ai vingt-deux".  Unless you take french, and more likely if you are French you would understand that he was saying "I sold myself" instead of "I am 22".  At first I did not catch it but the French teacher was looking at him terrified.  I cried from laughing so hard.  He was laughing too so I didn't feel so bad.  

Everyone in our class thought that after our hour and half of French we had the day free for whatever we need to do aka finish all our paperwork.  Right as we are about to leave, a fellow classmate comes in and says "All people taking Italian stay here, we have it in 5 minutes."  We all acted surprised but to be honest it was so French of them to pull this on us.  So French.  We ended up having Italian right after French.  Talk about a tough transition.  The teacher was speaking Italian to us but when she saw that we were not completely understanding her she would try to explain in French.  I learned more French vocab in my Italian class than I did in my French class.  Then, to top it all off, I was sitting between 4 spanish speaking people so I thought I kept hearing Spanish and not Italian.  There was so many languages happening.  This guy Leandro put it perfectly, "At the end of these classes I am going to have a salad of languages in my head and my sentences are going to lose any meaning."