What languages do you have at your school?

[Xenon]

If by designers we're talking about people who merely sketch out what the customer wants and hand it to a building organisation then it's a different story. There's not going to be much room for imagination.

If however, we're talking about proper designers who test new creative ideas and then hand it to a building organisation (and/or customer, business whatever) for approval, the operation is fully self-styled. This is the way most designing companies work, as far as I'm aware.

[Cairnie]

When I did my art and design course, I found that design was some of the hardest things I had to do. We had to design a carton for a juice drink aimed for 18-30 year olds, and the way I see it now it's just important to do your research otherwise you are struggling like fuck. Same for when I had to design a fancy egg box, and pretty much everything else I did in Design & Technology [like my horrid old Carmen the Whale plush thing aarrgh].

[Xenon]

You created a Carmen plushie in Design Tech? Hope you don't mind me saying but that's sad.

[Cairnie]

No sadder than someone who made a Kermit the Frog one in Textiles. xP But yeah it came out like it'd been chewed up by a dog, complete with felt and marker eyes. God my fangirling was hardcore back then.

[The Jonster]

I don't remember but los

[Eparcyl]

German was nice and spanish too but that sucks

[Greengoop]

We have German and French. You can also take another language for GCSE but the school won’t teach. You either need a tutor or to already know the language

[DaveRattlehead]

English is the most studied language here, but I gotta say that most that you learn is pretty useless. To be honest, I learnt more from Internet and videogames (specially Red Dead Redemption and GTA).
French had more relevance 40-50 years ago, and now it's just optional. When I was in high-school, I always chose IT instead of French as I found IT extremely easy for me. Probably the only time I saw something new for me there was when we learnt some basics of Java programming. I remember some basics, like the while or do-while loops, but I forgot almost everything as I haven't used it for years
I would like to learn some French. Valencian should make it easier for me as there are some things which are a bit similar, but I can't find the proper time to start learning it. Sometimes I surprisingly understand most of the things people write (even if I don't know most of the words, there are some which are similar to Valencian and I can get what they're saying) and I can write very, very simple things, but that's all

[Giant Chicken]

You can take Latin, which is pretty cool. Theres also French, German (the language im taking), and Spanish.

[Greengoop]

Oh yeah, also Latin. Only problem is the teacher is terrible and also a creep so yeah and I also don’t like Latin besides pig

[DaveRattlehead]

I guess it's fine to get some knowledge, but honestly I'm not really into learning a dead language at my age
French would probably be a great choice, but to be honest, I am incredibly tired after work and the last thing I would do is to learn a language. I should have done this when I had more free time

[Greengoop]

Don’t you already know French Dave?

[DaveRattlehead]

I can understand most of the words when I read it as there are some similar words in Valencian and I can write a few, very basic sentences, but that's all. I can't speak it and I miss most of the information when I listen to it. If I write something here, it's because I'm very sure I'm not gonna mess it up

[Greengoop]

Makes sense. Thing is I like to gradually post bigger sentences as I get better with languages