I aced both semesters of World History, and that's the only acedemic class that I've gotten As on. Math and Science just doesn't make as much sense to me as it does to other people, but I've always been able to remember history very well. O ya, I aced English last semester. Besdies that, band and PE are the only 2 other courses I've gotten As on.

 

Visual Arts it was for me. I really was terrible in maths, was about average in every other subjects and I flunked English (2nd language) My teacher gave me a passing grade cause he felt sorry for me
For learning English, I owe it to reading the back of bilingual cereal boxes :lol: (seriously)

 

I've always been quite good at history, french and german. I'm fairly good at English but at everything else I'm fairly average. But PE, well, it's not a particular talent of mine, let's just leave it at that!

 

latin...

latin was my strongest subject, second to all my music theory and appreciation classes.
i don't know why, but latin was so easy and kind of fun. ( i bet that ranks me on the geek-o-meter) :wink:
i got a lot of requests to read the latin on U.S. coins, etc.
E pluribus unum. Many become one.
or something to that extent.

 

Re: latin...

latin was my strongest subject, second to all my music theory and appreciation classes.
i don't know why, but latin was so easy and kind of fun. ( i bet that ranks me on the geek-o-meter) :wink:
i got a lot of requests to read the latin on U.S. coins, etc.
E pluribus unum. Many become one.
or something to that extent.

Actually, I've been having a real desire to learn Latin lately. It's the basis of so many other languages, I'd like to know it. I remember my Mom saying she took it in High School. Our HS was lucky to have Spanish and French.

 

Science is winning at 50%!

 

And I'd love to learn Latin too! :lol:

 

Loved English language and lit, all through school and excelled in composition and writing in general,loved history and biology,my teachers setting me past O'level papers to do when I was 13 which I acheived good passes at,did well in music of course but lessons were always geared more toward hisory of music with only a very small proportion of pupils choosing to recieve instrumental tuition,I took violin lessons at school and played in the orchestra but enjoy my music so much more now than I did 17 or 18 years ago.

 

I can't believe math isn't any higher, I'm he only one that's voted it so far! Science might be the most fun, but math is what I'm best at.
I hate language classes =\ History classes are interesting, but when it gets down to the work, I would much rather spend my time doing something else.
I even dropped AP LA and AP history this year so that I could take 2 AP science courses (physics, chemistry), AP calculus, and AP music theory, and not suffer through more hours of writing essays nearly daily for homework :evil:

 

And I'd love to learn Latin too! :lol:

One time, I actually ran across an online Latin tutor site. I may try to hunt that up again.

 

That would be nice. Let me know when you find it, Morry!

 

Speaking of Latin, I just came back from my concert of Schubert's Mass in G in Latin. Hmmm...is pronunciation half the battle?

 

Actually, I only know of language teachers to play music. They seem much more interested in culture. The only teacher of mine that was a musician was a teacher Dutch and English who played piano in The Mardi Gras Jazz Band who played in the Honky Tonky Jazz Club in Dendermonde, the most important jazz club in Flanders.

I won't talk about my musical abilities (it's hard to tell something about yourself), but I am quite strong in Dutch (1st language), English (3rd language), Maths and Physics. I don't really like German (4th language) and French (2nd language), but I can cope with them. In fact, I will be studying English and Swedish next year.

I think language teachers are much more interested interested in human sciences. Science and math teachers are much more abstract. In fact, I tried to explain that a note played with emotion doesn't simply sound the same as a note played without emotion, though the pitch, duration and dynamics are the same. The math teacher wouldn't understand half of it (Bb = Bb), the German teacher understood immeadiatly.

 

Jan, I'm curious. You say that French is you 2nd language, English is your 3rd, and German your 4th. Can you speak all these languages and carry a conversation, or can you simply just read/write in them?

 

It does seem that you have a pretty complete mastery of English, though.

 

Math was my best subject in High School... but the sciences (Physics and chemistry) were about equal to my mathematic skills. My worse subject was "social studies"... total BS of a class. At college my best subjects (outside of my Major in music) were economics and physics. Economics department actually offered me a scholarship after I completed Micro and Macro Economics if I was willing to switch and become an Economics major. But, my heart is in the music and I don't feel I need a degree in economics to understand how money/the economy works.

 

my heart is in the music and I don't feel I need a degree in economics to understand how money/the economy works.

I concur.

 

Always was big on foreign languages especially German and Norwegian, pretty darn good writer in English too. I could care less about math/science and history doesn't interest me that much either (though somewhat). From my experience those who are good at math have been really "rigid" musicians, whereas guys like me who wrote charts during math classes are more fluid and just "get it". Ironically in the 10th grade I took one of those b/s "career choice" tests and it said that my math skills weren't good enough to be a musician

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

How dumb is that!

 

I voted for maths,

Mostly because my computers mark hasn't changed from its A due to the fact that I haven't gotten any marks since the first week...
and the Media Tech course is a joke. The teacher favours me... and i don't have the heart to tell her I want to drop,
(Next thing I know, it's the end of the year...)

Math is third, with 80 somethin'.

 

I said math, and science would be a close second. However in HS we didnt have computer classes at all, in college my best classes are definetely my computer classes, like repair, networking, electrical design etc...

Greg

 

I said other, because, just this year, I was in the school drama club, but that's the only reason I didn't choose Math. I really noticed, in my school's band, that it was the people who pretty much got As and Bs did better on their tests (playing and written.) It wasn't a single subject, but the whole curriculum.

 

Re: latin...

latin was my strongest subject, second to all my music theory and appreciation classes.
i don't know why, but latin was so easy and kind of fun. ( i bet that ranks me on the geek-o-meter) :wink:
i got a lot of requests to read the latin on U.S. coins, etc.
E pluribus unum. Many become one.
or something to that extent.

you are not alone in that. i am good in math and science( math teacher was a guitarist, science was a drummer) and foreign languages (also a guitarist). but im a latin geek it was always more fun than any other subject for me. my problem was in 5years i had 8 latin teachers. had 2 last year and the second year i had 3. so that was really bad for me, but oh well. and we had a tendency for years too, bad, good, bad, good good, then badand good second term.

 

Call me a geek or just a preppy - I had 5 years of Latin and actually won a prize in Latin in college. :roll: It was my only straight-A subject. And to think I only took it because the modern language teachers at my school all seemed like such goobers.

Omnia Gallia est divisa in partes tres... I forget the rest.

 

I had it from 4th grade till 9th, and didnt get much done due to the constant changing of latin teachers. i got through latin 2 which is all that i need for now. when i moved the new school offerred spanish french and german. german was most like latin but i took spanish anyways. it sucks but oh well

 

From my experience those who are good at math have been really "rigid" musicians, whereas guys like me who wrote charts during math classes are more fluid and just "get it".

I guess I've done both--writing math contests and writing charts during math. I'm not sure about the rigid part though. For me personally, it may be true--being a beginner, my improv skills are as good as a match in a storm (this is partly where the "rigid" part comes in), but when it comes to reading music and playing written pieces (classically trained), I can hold my ground. But if I look beyond myself, I see plenty of people who are gifted in the math/sciences and are also phenomenal musicians. *drooling with admiration*

Ironically in the 10th grade I took one of those b/s "career choice" tests and it said that my math skills weren't good enough to be a musician

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

How dumb is that!

:lol: