Ed asked:


I’m a student of Modern Languages at college here, in Brazil. My option was to study Portuguese and English Languages. I think my course is great.
I don’t know if you know that our second language here is the English (but it’s not an official second language). We study everything about Literature (Brazilian, Portuguese, English and American), Portuguese and English Language, English and Portuguese Phonetic etc…So, we study hard.
The Portuguese is the third Western language more spoke in the Western and the fourth more spoke in the world. But a day I thought: We study so hard the English here, but in the USA are there schools that learn the Portuguese?
I suppose in the USA, you just have the Spanish classes as Latin-American Language (because it’s what a see in tv shows, premieres, movies etc.).
Here in Brazil we have idiomatic schools that usually teach English, Spanish or French.

So these are my asks: are there idiomatic schools that teach Portuguese in the USA? Is it easy to find them? Can a Brazilian, graduated here, teaching in the US? If you were learning the Portuguese, would you prefer the Portuguese or Brazilian way to speak?

Thank you, friends!

Kevin

♥ Just. Me ♥ asked:


Would you consider me academically smart?

I’m in 8th grade (mid-term grades)…
Geometry/Algebra II: 99% (A)
Latin II: 83% (B/B-)
French II Honors: 96% (A)
Spanish II: 93% (A/A-)
English: 80% (B-)
American History: 94% (A)
Pre-Chemistry:89% (B+/A-)

It always seems like I’m the dumbest in my grade. It’s SO sad! Everyone expects me to fail courses because of my “poor” grades.

English this year is extremely hard! I was placed in Advanced and we’re doing our school’s 10th grade literature course and grammar is unbelievably challenging!
All-girls private school.

It’s terrible!! No boys, stupid uniforms, I always get made fun of for being dumb! Even all my friends make fun of me…

My dad makes fun of me too! He says I have no chance to make it into Penn with my current marks… which is where my parents went

So this is a serious question BTW.
I meet with my English teacher like twice a week now!
At most schools if I were in the Upper 10% I would have a spot in an Ivy.

At my school you need to be in the Upper 50%, which I am sadly not in. Class Rank-wise I’m probably in the bottom 30%

June

Azathoth asked:


I was only in school until third grade and have been unschooled until now, so I have virtually no experience with formal education. I took a class that I had to drop because of lack of study skills. Point is, I don’t know what a normal amount of time to spend on schoolwork is, or what’s realistic.

My classes are AP American History, AP English Literature and Composition (both online), Latin -Wheelocks-, chemistry/biology, Saxon math, and piano lessons.

I was thinking a usual breakdown would be about an hour a day for each AP class, 30 minutes or so for Latin -I’m working over the summer and that’s how long it usually take-, 45 minutes a day for science, about 45 minutes for math, and 20-40 minutes of piano. According to my calculations, that would come out to about 4 hours a day. Time spent on AP classes would vary. For example, I like reading and I’m a fast reader, so some days I could finish all my work in half an hour. Other days I might need two hours.
I erred on the liberal side with my calculations and don’t usually count piano in as schoolwork. Also, since I’m taking chemistry and biology in the same year -but not at the same time- I can’t really be sure how long that will take. I’m better at biology than chemistry.

So, is that a normal amount of time?

Sally

John asked:


I’m currently a sophomore in high school. I go to a high school that is within the top 500 schools in the country and it is a public school (suburbs). I’m a bit afraid as I am starting to think I will not be able to get where I want to go with what I have now.

My GPA is generally from 3.5 to 3.8 every semester (thus far). My QPA is from 3.8 to 4.1. Next year I am taking two AP courses (AP Us History, AP Java) and am taking two Honors courses Honors Physics, Honors Advanced Pre-Calc. Then two normal level classes, Latin 3 and American Literature. I am not sure if I want to jump up to Honors American Literature, but it may happen.

I plan on taking AP European History, AP BC Calculus, AP Chemistry next year.

Anyway, the activity I’ve been a part of for 9th grade and 10th is Marching Band. I am dropping it next year due to several reasons I don’t believe I need to disclose. I do Latin Club and will add on Mock Trial next year (and may possibly fill in for a friend this year)
As for community service, I had around 14-15 last year, all qualifying for the National Honors Society. I only have two this year, but will get around 10 or so by the end of the year.

I took the PSAT’s this year and received around 60’s on everything.

What I’m worried about is not being able to get into the colleges I’m interested. I have a couple ideas, Notre Dame, Michigan, Carnegie Mellon, UPenn, and maybe Penn State. Am I good enough to get into these (Maybe not all but generally). I know that the factors range far beyond the information I have given, but I want to know if I am up to par thus far. I am a child of an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania.

Regina

Hello asked:


What about Asian lit, Latin American lit, Russian lit?

Rodney